10 Post Office Lane, North Queensferry is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 December 1979. 3 related planning applications.
10 Post Office Lane, North Queensferry
- WRENN ID
- iron-gallery-furze
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 19 December 1979
- Address
- 10 Post Office Lane, North Queensferry, KY11 1JP
- OS grid reference
- NT 132 804
- Coordinates
- 56.00948, -3.39359
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Dated 1776, 10 Post Office Lane is a two-story, three-bay, square-plan traditional house with a modern two-story extension and conservatory to the rear. The exterior is painted harling with droved stone margins.
The north (principal) elevation is symmetrical, featuring a central door topped by a narrow fanlight and a marriage inscription reading '17 I M/ M M 76'. The door is flanked by windows, with further windows on the first floor in the outer bays.
The west elevation is a plain gable. The south elevation includes a modern ground floor lean-to conservatory on the left and a two-story flat-roofed concrete extension to the centre. There’s a first floor window close to the eaves on the left side. The east elevation shows an advanced gable from a former attached house that is now demolished. It contains a modern French door to the right and an elongated window to the right.
Four-pane timber sash and case windows are present on the north side and on the first floor facing south; modern glazing is elsewhere. The front door is a timber-panelled and two-pane glazed door. The pitched roof is covered in pantiles and easing slates, with raised ashlar coped skews, coped gablehead stacks, and octagonal clay cans.
The house was formerly connected to a building on the east side, which has since been demolished. The marriage inscription and pantiles are notable features that contribute to the character of the early village street plan. The house is part of an 18th century arrangement of single and multi-story dwellings that form a large U-shape from number 4 Post Office Lane to number 1 Helen Place (formerly known as Chapel Place). Post Office Lane was historically known as North Lane, serving as the main route down to the shore of St James’s Bay, which has been largely in-filled due to quarrying.
Local climate
10 Post Office Lane, North Queensferry receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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