In brief
A tall harled harbourfront house combines crowsteps, a curving central wallhead gable and a pend entrance.
Quick facts
- Date
- Reputedly 1686; possibly very early eighteenth century
- Authorship / patronage
- Architect or builder not identified in the designation account
- Designation
- Listed building, Category A (LB39978)
- OS grid reference
- NO 54939 02488
An emphatic harbourfront house
Three storeys and five window bays give the house a broad, regular frontage. Painted margins contrast with the harling; crowstepped ends and a curving central wallhead gable break the pantiled roofline. A pend passes through the frontage, and a blank panel sits above the doorway. HES also records an original panelled first-floor interior and a coach house to the rear.
A qualified date
HES describes the house as reputedly built in 1686, but allows a very early eighteenth-century date. The building is therefore recorded here with that uncertainty intact. The designation’s note that restoration was under way in 1972 is a historical observation, not a statement about work taking place today.
Viewing
The May 2021 photograph shows the full street frontage and its distinctive central gable. This is a house; the image and designation do not imply permission to enter the pend, interior or rear ground. The surviving interior is described from HES’s account, not from an interior visit for this record.
Sources and further reading
- Historic Environment Scotland — LB39978 — Active Category A listing; qualified late-seventeenth/early-eighteenth-century date, five-bay exterior, pend and surviving panelled first-floor interior.
Explore Pittenweem
The Pittenweem Place entry connects the harbour, market streets, priory and shore-side houses.
Location
OS grid reference NO 54939 02488 · Location confidence: High — official HES mapped National Grid Reference transformed from OSGB36 to WGS84; catalogue point, not a boundary · Select the marker to open its satellite view in Google Maps. On desktop, drag Pegman (the yellow figure) onto a blue road. On mobile, turn on the Street View layer and tap a blue road. Other photo markers may be user-contributed.
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