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Conservation area cottage

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View from the street
New furniture and view to the dining area
Cosy gas fireplace
Updated kitchen
New bathroom

Reviews

9.4 out of 10
Exceptional
2 bedrooms1 bathroomSleeps 4

Popular amenities

  • Kitchen
  • Washing machine
  • Free Wi-Fi
  • Outdoor space
  • Parking available

Explore the area

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Pittenweem, SCT
  • Place, Billow Ness Beach
    ‪2 min drive‬
  • Place, Anstruther Golf Club
    ‪2 min drive‬
  • Place, Old Course at St Andrews
    ‪20 min drive‬
  • Airport, Edinburgh (EDI)
    ‪69 min drive‬

Rooms & beds

2 bedrooms (sleeps 4)

Bedroom 1

1 Double Bed

Bedroom 2

1 Double Bed

1 bathroom

Bathroom 1

Bathtub or shower · Toilet

Spaces

Porch or lanai
Kitchen
Garden
Dining area

About this property

Conservation area cottage

This is the cutest cottage available in Pittenweem. You will find everything you need to enjoy your stay and then some. The beds are really comfortable, the living area has been recently updated with new furniture and carpet and fibre WiFi is on site. The private yard is great for a morning cup of tea or an evening barbecue. Although being a really quiet location you will find the local amenities and harbour a couple of minutes walk away. Local communities of St Andrews, King's Barnes, Crail and St Monans are just down the road. The cottage is available for the week of Christmas from the 20th until the 27th and New Year from the 27th til the 3rd or later.

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House Rules

Flexible check-in available (contact host in advance of arrival)
Flexible check-out available (contact host to arrange)
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Children

Children allowed: ages 0–17
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Events

No events allowed
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Pets

Pets allowed
Your pets are welcomed.
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Smoking

Smoking is not permitted
Please smoke in the garden.
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Important information

You need to know

Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card, debit card or cash deposit may be required at check-in for incidental charges
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges; special requests cannot be guaranteed
On-site parties or group events are strictly prohibited
Host has indicated that there is a carbon monoxide detector on the property
Host has indicated that there is a smoke detector on the property
Safety features at this property include a fire extinguisher, a first aid kit and a deadlock
Property Registration Number FI 00730 P

We should mention

A car is recommended for transport to and from this property

About the area

Anstruther

Located in Anstruther, this cottage is by the sea. Craigtoun Country Park and Billow Ness Beach reflect the area's natural beauty and area attractions include La Petite Epicerie and Scottish Fisheries Museum. Cambo Estate Gardens and East Sands Leisure Centre are also worth visiting. Fishing and swimming offer great chances to get out on the surrounding water, or you can seek out an adventure with cycling and mountain biking nearby.
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Pittenweem, SCT

What's nearby

  • Billow Ness Beach - 2 min drive - 1.6 km
  • Anstruther Golf Club - 2 min drive - 1.9 km
  • University of St. Andrews - 19 min drive - 20.5 km
  • Old Course at St Andrews - 20 min drive - 21.5 km
  • St. Andrews Links - 23 min drive - 23.1 km

Getting around

  • Cupar Station - 21 min drive
  • Dundee (DND) - 57 min drive

Restaurants

  • ‪The Wee Chippy - ‬3 min drive
  • ‪Anstruther Fish Bar - ‬3 min drive
  • ‪Crail Harbour Gallery and Tearoom - ‬9 min drive
  • ‪The Cocoa Tree - ‬3 min walk
  • ‪The Shoregate - ‬9 min drive

Frequently asked questions

Is Conservation area cottage pet-friendly?

Yes, pets are allowed at this property. Some restrictions may apply, so please contact the property for more details.

How much does it cost to stay at Conservation area cottage?

As of 22 March 2026, prices found for a 1-night stay for 2 adults at Conservation area cottage on 7 June 2026 start from NZ$236, including taxes and fees. This price is based on the lowest nightly price found in the last 24 hours for stays in the next 30 days. Prices are subject to change. Choose your dates for more accurate prices.

How much is parking at Conservation area cottage?

On-site parking is available at the property.

Where is Conservation area cottage located?

Situated by the sea, this cottage is within 1 mile (2 km) of Billow Ness Beach and Anstruther Golf Club. La Petite Epicerie and Scottish Fisheries Museum are also within 2 miles (3 km).

Reviews

9.4

Exceptional

Reviews are presented in chronological order, subject to a moderation process, and verified unless otherwise labelled.
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Rating 10 - Excellent. 55 out of 73 reviews
Rating 8 - Good. 15 out of 73 reviews
Rating 6 - Okay. 2 out of 73 reviews
Rating 4 - Poor. 0 out of 73 reviews
Rating 2 - Terrible. 1 out of 73 reviews

9.4/10

Cleanliness

9.0/10

Staff & service

7.4/10

Amenities

7.4/10

Property conditions & facilities

9.6/10

Check-in

9.6/10

Communication

9.6/10

Location

9.6/10

Listing accuracy

Reviews

Verified

10/10 Excellent

dominic m.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy
Lovely cottage, very close to all the amenities. Short walk to beach. Cottage is well equipped and so welcoming upon arrival. Super responsive owner who was so helpful. Thank you. We will definitely return.
Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2026
Verified

8/10 Good

isobel w.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy
Great Location, lovely sun trapped garden with helpful neighbours. Needs a toilet brush !
Stayed 6 nights in Aug 2025
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Angus

Liked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities, communication
Fantastic place to stay in Pittenweem in this ‘home from home’ cottage. Very comfortable and well equipped. Lovely garden to sit out on. We will definitely return.
Stayed 5 nights in Apr 2025
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Peter H.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Wonderful cottage in a small, beautiful, artistic town

Excellent cottage in a small, beautiful, artistic town along the north shore of the Firth of Forth.
Stayed 3 nights in Aug 2024
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Lesley F.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Good location

Really well located for the Galleries , High Street eateries and short walks down to the harbour.
Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2024
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Donald R.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Pittenweem break

A lovely cottage in the heart of Pittenweem with easy access to the coastpath for walking and easy routes to other East Neuk locations.Would highly reccomend
Stayed 7 nights in Apr 2025
Archival

10/10 Excellent

Julie B.

Home from home

We really enjoyed our stay here and would love to go back. Lovely little cottage!
Stayed 2 nights in May 2017
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Celia M.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Clean and comfortable cottage in a lovely village

Clean comfortable and well equipped cottage in a great location, only a few minutes walk from the High Street and the harbour. Lovely coast path walks in both directions. Perfect for a relaxing break
Stayed 5 nights in Aug 2024
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Suzanne C.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Cosy cottage

Cosy cottage centrally located and nice and quiet
Stayed 3 nights in Nov 2023
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Iain S.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Lovely and comfortable

Really nice cosy cottage in a great location, very well equipped and supplied. Very friendly owner. We had a great stay, and look forward to returning in the future.
Stayed 5 nights in Feb 2023
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Professor MOIRA L.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Excellent position lively cosy cottage

Easy and helpful communications from owners
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2022
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Catherine H.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Peace Perfect Peace

Loved everything about this cottage area
Stayed 3 nights in Sep 2023
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Nicola C.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Cosy homely cottage!

Lovely cottage with everything you need for a relaxing, chilled break. Communication with the owner was brilliant. Beautiful walks on the doorstep and so many great eating places in and around Pittenweem.
Stayed 3 nights in May 2024
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Elaine H.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Fantastic cottage

Had an absolutely fabulous stay at this cottage lots of home comforts lovely garden such a sun trap and a great base for exploring the East Neuk of Fife. Description of cottage and facilities was spot on as advertised with so much more provided cannot fault this property we will book again for 👌
Stayed 4 nights in Aug 2023
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Caroline A.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Pleasant and relaxing holidays

The house is cosy and comfortable,very pleasant. We enjoyed our stay. The environment is quiet. The host is kind and all the explanations were useful and convenient. Moreover, Pittenweem is a pleasant little village by the sea.
Stayed 7 nights in Jul 2024
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Kristine H.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Our happy place

Lovely cottage . We just love East Neuk area always enjoy our stays . A bonus this time was the garden area . We certainly made use of it especially as we had beautiful weather . Neighbours are very friendly too .
Stayed 4 nights in Aug 2023
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Jacqueline K.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Pittenweem

Really pleasant very comfortable Its a lovely cosy cottage A nice quiet area Pittenweem is my new favourite -:)
Stayed 3 nights in Nov 2023
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Anne H.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Pittenweem

Wonderful
Stayed 4 nights in Dec 2023
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Susan L.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Loved it !

Cosy, clean, comfortable cottage in a conservation village. Everything we needed was available at this accomodation. Dog loved the enclosed garden. Neighbours very friendly and helpful without being intrusive. Local attractions close by. Communication with Peter was excellent. Thanks Peter. Hope to return one day.
Stayed 3 nights in Oct 2023
Verified

10/10 Excellent

TRACEY C.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Lovely stay.

I was trying to think of something to write on how I felt about my stay. On entering this lovely cottage, it felt like, one big cosy, warm, comfortable, safe and secure hug. I needed to get away for a short break, I didn't know at the time when I booked this last minute, it turned out to be just what I needed and so much more. Elaine, the host was absolutely lovely, her enthusiasm, love of the cottage and very friendly village was totally contagious and understandable. I was really sad and really didn't want to leave but I am planning to return. for a break
Stayed 3 nights in Dec 2024
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Linda M.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Delightful cottage

Stayed in Conservation cottage for a long weekend with my friend and my dog. Cottage was a great find. Very clean and very comfortable. It has everything you need to ge able to relax. Lovely garden area where you vou could sit out if the weather allowed.Very close to the harbour area where there were a few shops and restaurants. Lots of different walks nearby and easy access to other areas of the East Coast. The area is very dog friendly and people are friendly too. Communication with the host is excellent. Would love to return for another stay soon.
Stayed 4 nights in Mar 2023
Verified

8/10 Good

Alison T.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Pittenweem Conservation Cottage

An enjoyable stay despite terrible weather. The village is lovely. The cottage was comfortably furnished and the kitchen well equipped. The bedrooms were on the small side but overall a nice place to spend a few days. The host was very friendly and helpful. I found Vrbo systems unnecessarily complex and felt the organisation was only interested in selling more holidays and not in providing a good service to the customer. When I did manage to get through to an actual person he was very polite and helpful despite having to go through a great rigmarole before even asking what he could do to help.
Stayed 3 nights in May 2024
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Louise G.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Great wee cottage

Cosy wee cottage close to the main road running through Pitenweem on the road to Anstruther. Good access to harbour just 4 or 5 streets away downhill. Lovely pop in antiques/junk emporium on the next road, right next to a gallery, fresh fishmonger at the end of the street. Narrow lane outside the house with no parking restrictions with two steep steps from the pavement up to the garden from the street and then into the cottage. For a small cottage it seemed to have anything you could possibly need, with sheltered outdoor seating area & BBQ. Compact bedrooms but not really lacking anything at all, spacious sitting room for 4. Personally found the bed a little small for 2of us, as both of them are up against walls and on one side so difficult to get out of for a nighttime pee without waking up the other half! Otherwise perfect, we’ll be back.
Stayed 3 nights in Jun 2023
Archival

2/10 Terrible

HAZEL M.

Not what we expected at all!

On arrival I went to side of house to collect the key as instructed, and came back around to discover my husband already in, as someone had left a key in the door! The first thing we noticed was the horrible smell, like stale air freshener and carpet freshener, as if another unpleasant smell was being covered up. The cottage is very small, which isn't a problem in itself, but sitting room felt claustrophobic with the excessive amount of furniture and clutter that was stuffed into it. There were 2 small double bedrooms, the 2nd of which [ if you could call it a bedroom, it didn't have a window, no chance of escape in the event of a fire in the night! ] smelled particularly bad. The kitchen was ok, but the bathroom was the only really decent room. Before booking I asked specifically if the garden was enclosed and secure, as we have 2 dogs, I was assured it was, but discovered the tiny patch of garden was surrounded by a wall which was very low at the front with a rickety gate, the dogs could easily have jumped down from this onto the road, a small child could certainly topple over and have a nasty fall due to the drop on the other side. We went out for a few hours after unloading our stuff, and although we had been assured we could easily park our SUV on the street, when we came back we found that although there was a gap between 2 vehicles it was impossible to park as the road was too narrow to get in the gap without hitting wall on the other side. On re-entering the cottage we were immediately hit with the awful smell again, and decided we couldn't sleep there for one night, never mind the two we had booked! [ Thank goodness we had not booked a longer stay! ] We loaded up our stuff and headed home. Arrived at 2pm, home by 9pm! Awful
Verified

8/10 Good

Christian H.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Gemütliches kleines Haus

Das Haus liegt in einer kleinen Nebenstrasse. Das Haus ist gemütlich und besitzt einen kleinen Garten mit einer Sitzgelegenheit. Der Garten ist für Familien mit Kindern vielleicht etwas klein. Generell ein gemütliches Haus in einem netten, ursprünglichen Dorf.
Stayed 3 nights in Jul 2024

About the host

Hosted by Elaine

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We just started renting in the summer of 2016 with great response. We already have people threatening to return! Our rates reflect the fact that we would like our guests to come and enjoy the area as we do.

Why they chose this property

The cottage belonged to Elaine's father and we enjoy it and maintain it in his honour. It is uniquely located in the conservation area of Pittenweem being very quiet yet close to the local amenities.

What makes this property unique

The interior of the cottage is ample in size and the private yard is maintained for your enjoyment.
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