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Latitude: 56.3058 / 56°18'20"N
Longitude: -3.156 / 3°9'21"W
OS Eastings: 328572
OS Northings: 713193
OS Grid: NO285131
Mapcode National: GBR 29.6QY3
Mapcode Global: WH6QW.HRCS
Plus Code: 9C8R8R4V+8J
Entry Name: Thatched Studio, Collessie
Listing Name: Thatched Studio, Kirkbrae, Collessie
Listing Date: 29 June 1978
Last Amended: 11 May 2021
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 333403
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB2476
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200333403
Location: Collessie
County: Fife
Electoral Ward: Howe of Fife and Tay Coast
Parish: Collessie
Traditional County: Fife
Tagged with: Architectural structure
The roof is thatched with water reed with a turfed ridge. The rear pitch is part thatched and part glazed. The windows are timber fixed pane. There is a coped chimney stack to the north gable.
The interior (seen 2017) is a single space with lime-washed walls. The former boiler to the north gable has been converted to a wood burning stove. There is a timber half-mezzanine with staircase, also added during the 1990s renovation work.
Thatched Studio is one of five thatched buildings located in the village of Collessie, to the west of Cupar, Fife. It is sited at the roadside at the bottom of the garden of Lomondview, Braehead (LB2471). The studio may have begun as a single-storey store or weaving shed before later conversion to a wash house (Fife Herald). It was converted to an artist's studio in 1995-98 at which time the gables were partially rebuilt, a later corrugated asbestos roof covering was replaced with thatched water reed, the walls were repointed with lime and an internal timber mezzanine was added.
It is among a relatively small number of traditional buildings with a surviving thatched roof found across Scotland. A Survey of Thatched Buildings in Scotland, published in 2016 by the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB), found there were only around 200 buildings of this type remaining, most of which are found in small rural communities. Thatched buildings are often traditionally built, showing distinctive local and regional building methods and materials. Those that survive are important in helping us understand these traditional skills and an earlier way of life.
Statutory address and listed building record revised in 2021. Previously listed as 'Collessie Village Washhouse Property of Mr Stark, Lomondview'.
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