Preston View, Tanhouse Brae, Culross is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 July 1973. House.
Preston View, Tanhouse Brae, Culross
- WRENN ID
- plain-window-lichen
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Dunfermline and Dollar MP: Graeme Downie (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 19 July 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- Preston View, Tanhouse Brae, Culross, KY12 8HX
- OS grid reference
- NS 987 860
- Coordinates
- 56.0561, -3.62766
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Preston View is a house located on Tanhouse Brae in Culross, dating from the late 19th to early 20th century. It is a two-storey, three-bay structure built from exposed tooled, snecked stone, featuring ashlar window and door surrounds as well as an eaves course.
On the northwest elevation, which is the principal facade, there is a central door with a fanlight above it. To the right of the door is a window, and directly above, there are two first-floor windows that are centrally positioned. A mid-level stair window is located to the left.
The northeast elevation is attached to Snuff Cottage, while the southeast elevation was not visible in 2001. The southwest elevation is connected to Forth View.
The house has four-pane timber sash and case windows with horns, and a panelled timber door. It is topped with a pitched slate roof and features gable apex stacks. The interior was not seen in 2001.
Local climate
Preston View, Tanhouse Brae, 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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