The Corner, 2 High Street, Leven is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 September 1999. Commercial. 4 related planning applications.
The Corner, 2 High Street, Leven
- WRENN ID
- lone-vestry-willow
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 September 1999
- Type
- Commercial
- Address
- The Corner, 2 High Street, Leven, KY8 4LZ
- OS grid reference
- NO 381 005
- Coordinates
- 56.1937, -2.9987
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Corner, located at 2 High Street in Leven, is a two-storey shop built in 1914, featuring a corner tower on a prominent site. The exterior is finished in polished ashlar with a channelled design at the ground level. It has a deep traditional fascia, a ground floor cornice, a deep cill course at the first floor, and an eaves cornice, which is mutulated at the towerhead. The building includes stone mullions and chamfered arrises.
On the south elevation facing Shorehead, there is an in-canted timber door with etched glass leading to a deep fanlight, accompanied by a narrow fanlight above, flanking lights, and a full-width, three-light outer fanlight. The rounded angle above transitions to a tripartite window, with the eaves breaking into a finialled conical roof.
The southeast elevation on High Street features a four-part traditional display window with a broad channelled pier on the outer right, canvas blinds, and a full-width fascia displaying 'BARRON' in gold lettering, along with a moulded bracket to the outer right. There is a bipartite window at the centre on the first floor, with single windows in the flanking bays.
On the southwest elevation facing Union Street, there is a display window with a broad channelled pier on the outer left, along with a lettered fascia and bracket similar to the High Street elevation; a single window is present on the first floor.
The first-floor windows are timber sash and case with plate glass glazing, while the ground floor features fixed display windows. The roof is covered with small grey/green slates, and there are cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers.
Inside, the shop has a panelled timber counter and traditional shelving, with a boarded timber ceiling. A clock by D Mitchell of Leven hangs above the main entrance.
Local climate
The Corner, 2 High Street, Leven 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 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- Related listed building consents — 4 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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