The Lodge, Leys Park Road is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 August 1986. Former poorhouse. 4 related planning applications.
The Lodge, Leys Park Road
- WRENN ID
- steep-quartz-winter
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Dunfermline and Dollar MP: Graeme Downie (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 8 August 1986
- Type
- Former poorhouse
- Address
- The Lodge, Leys Park Road, KY12 0AA
- OS grid reference
- NT 100 879
- Coordinates
- 56.07545, -3.4474
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Lodge on Leys Park Road is a single-storey, three-bay building designed in 1885 by Andrew Scobie. It was originally a probationary ward for a poorhouse and features a T-plan layout. The exterior is constructed from coursed stugged sandstone rubble, accented with droved and polished ashlar dressings, and includes a base course and an eaves band.
The south elevation, which is the principal facade, has a symmetrical arrangement. It features a central entrance with an architrave, a replacement metal-faced door, and a two-pane rectangular fanlight above. The outer bays are slightly projecting gabled sections, each adorned with a short broken section of the eaves band at the head of a moulded skewputt. Each bay also has a mullioned bipartite window with a bracketed canopy and apron.
On the east elevation, there is a blank bay that projects to the left, with the entrance and a window located on the right return. A short section of rubble wall with rounded coping adjoins the right side, enclosing a small walled yard, and there is a mullioned bipartite window set back in the rear wing behind the wall.
The building features two and four-pane timber sash and case windows and has a grey slate roof that is piended except for the principal elevation. There are three corniced ashlar stacks with friezes, with one stack being octagonal.
The interior was not inspected in 1999.
Local climate
The Lodge, Leys Park Road receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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