170 High Street, Leslie is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 December 1994. Tenement.

170 High Street, Leslie

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Glenrothes and Mid Fife MP: Richard Baker (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
22 December 1994
Type
Tenement
OS grid reference
NO 252 017
Coordinates
56.20273, -3.20708
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

170 High Street in Leslie is a two-storey, four-bay tenement building dated 1763, located within an irregular terrace. The building features a chamfered bay at the far left and has been altered at the front, being converted into a single house in the 20th century. The northern and eastern elevations are constructed of squared and snecked sandstone, while the southern elevation is made of random rubble. The building has dressed ashlar margins and long and shortwork quoins.

On the northern elevation facing High Street, the bays are arranged in a 2-1-1 pattern. To the left of the centre is a boarded door with a plate glass letter-box fanlight. The door and window openings on the right have been converted into a garage. There is a window to the left with a pend opening in the chamfered angle. The first floor features regular fenestration.

The southern elevation includes a pend opening to the right at ground level with a marriage lintel above, and a window to the left. A forestair leads to a central door, with two windows in the flanking bays. The first-floor sash and case windows have a 4-pane glazing pattern, while the ground floor has a modern plate glass window. The rear features sash and case windows with an 8-pane glazing pattern. The roof is covered with red pantiles and has slate eaves easing courses, along with coped gablehead stacks topped with thackstanes and cans.

The boundaries include a coped whinstone rubble wall adjoining number 144, and there is a cobbled area at the front.

At the rear of the property, there are 18th-century outbuildings. One is an east-facing single-storey, irregular three-bay cottage that is harled and has a piended roof covered with pantiles and a central brick stack. This cottage features sash and case windows with a 12-pane glazing pattern, a smaller window to the far right with a 6-pane pattern, and a panelled door with a blocked letterbox fanlight. The southern elevation has been converted to a garage opening.

Another outbuilding is a two-storey, three-bay tenement facing north, which is cement rendered over random rubble, harled on the south side, and constructed of whinstone rubble on the east. It has dressed margins, with a two-leaf boarded door at the centre of the northern elevation and windows in the flanking bays. The southern elevation features a forestair leading to a central two-leaf boarded door, also with windows in the flanking bays. This building has a red pantile roof with coped skews and a truncated west stack.

Local climate

170 High Street, Leslie receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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