Mint Lea, Sandhaven, Culross is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 July 1973. House. 3 related planning applications.

Mint Lea, Sandhaven, Culross

WRENN ID
fallow-vestry-hawthorn
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Dunfermline and Dollar MP: Graeme Downie (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
19 July 1973
Type
House
Address
Mint Lea, Sandhaven, Culross, KY12 8JG
OS grid reference
NS 985 859
Coordinates
56.05544, -3.62996
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Mint Lea is an 18th-century, two-storey, six-bay rectangular-plan house located in Sandhaven, Culross. It features a modern extension added to the rear in the mid to late 20th century. The exterior is finished with white render, and the window and door surrounds are painted ashlar, while the rest of the building is constructed from sandstone rubble.

On the south elevation, there are two ground floor windows on the left side, with two first floor windows centered above them. The entrance door is positioned to the right, accompanied by three ground floor windows to the left and three first floor windows to the right. Most windows and the door have chamfered surrounds, and there is a timber trellis porch.

The west elevation adjoins Myrtle Bank, while the north elevation has a ground floor window on the right and a first floor window above to the left. There is a single-storey extension to the left, finished in pebble-dash, with a door on the right return and a window to the left. The east elevation features a first floor window on the left.

The building has 12-pane timber sash and case windows with horns located below the eaves on the first floor. The door has been replaced. The roof is pitched, covered with slate on the principal elevation and replacement pantiles on the rear, featuring crowstepped gables. The gable apex stacks are coped with polygonal cans, and there is a pebbled strip at the ground level on the south side.

Inside, the interior is modern, with timber steps opposite the front door, likely in their original position.

Local climate

Mint Lea, Sandhaven, Culross sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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