Oriel House, 9 Academy Square, Limekilns is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 March 1978. House. 1 related planning application.

Oriel House, 9 Academy Square, Limekilns

WRENN ID
floating-passage-sienna
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Dunfermline and Dollar MP: Graeme Downie (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
17 March 1978
Type
House
Address
Oriel House, 9 Academy Square, Limekilns, KY11 3HN
OS grid reference
NT 076 834
Coordinates
56.03475, -3.48411
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Oriel House, located at 9 Academy Square in Limekilns, is an early 19th-century, three-storey, three-bay house with a two-storey addition on the right. It features white harling with dressed margins and an eaves course. The left bay has a two-storey canted window with a sandstone surround.

On the east (principal) elevation, there is a central door, with a window above it on the first floor, and a ground floor window to the right with another window above it. To the left, there is a later two-storey fenestration bay, and canted bay windows with mullions at each storey. The second floor has three windows. The far right wing has two ground floor windows, a central first floor window with a pediment, and a kneelered dormerhead.

The south elevation is plain, featuring a third floor window on the right. The west elevation was not seen in 1999, while the north elevation has a plain gable.

The house predominantly has four-pane timber sash and case windows, with six-pane timber windows on the second floor. The pitched roof is covered with grey slate and has raised flat-head skews, with "1817" carved into the end of the left east-facing skew. There are stone gable apex stacks and a gable apex stack on the wing.

The interior was not seen in 1999.

Local climate

Oriel House, 9 Academy Square, Limekilns receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% 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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