University Library, South Street, St Andrews is a Grade A listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 April 1959. Library.

University Library, South Street, St Andrews

WRENN ID
peeling-jade-shade
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
28 April 1959
Type
Library
OS grid reference
NO 510 165
Coordinates
56.3391, -2.79386
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The University Library on South Street in St Andrews was originally built between 1612 and 1643 and reconstructed from 1764 to 1767 based on designs by the wright John Gardner. It was later extended to the west in the same style by architect Robert Reid between 1828 and 1830. The building features a two-storey ashlar facade with pedimented bays and niches on the first floor. Ground floor windows were inserted in the 1890s, and the south wall displays 16th century sculptures from St Mary's Chapel. Inside, the Galleried Upper Hall boasts a Roman Doric fluted pine column and a coved ceiling. The Senate Room was remodelled in 1904 by architect Sir R Rowand Anderson.

Local climate

University Library, South Street, St Andrews receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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