Tour Scotland photograph of houses in Pittenweem, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. The white houses with red roofs illustrate the classic East Neuk building style, influenced by trade with the Low Countries, Belgium and the Netherlands. The East Neuk offered natural trading ports for Dutch and Belgian captains as they sailed up past the east coast of England. These ships brought red pantiles as ballast, and the locals soon found them to be excellent roofing material. One can just make out the " crow step " gables the gable ends rise in steps rather than the more normal smooth angled line, an architectural feature imported from the Low Countries. These and other vernacular features are common throughout the town, which has one of Scotland's best preserved and most attractive town scapes, with many historic buildings.
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