Glenwood House, Glenwood Road, Leslie is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 March 1986. House.

Glenwood House, Glenwood Road, Leslie

WRENN ID
stark-sandstone-lark
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Glenrothes and Mid Fife MP: Richard Baker (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
27 March 1986
Type
House
OS grid reference
NO 248 010
Coordinates
56.19609, -3.21311
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Glenwood House is an earlier 19th-century, two-storey, three-bay classical house with a rectangular plan and piend and platform roofs, located on Glenwood Road in Leslie. The building features Aberdeen bond, squared whinstone rubble, and squared and snecked rubble with contrasting sandstone dressings and quoins. It has a base course and a cavetto eaves cornice. The east elevation includes a round-headed window with voussoirs, while the ground floor on the west elevation has architraved surrounds, chamfered arrises, and stone mullions.

On the principal (west) elevation, there is a corniced and pilastered doorcase with a deep-set panelled timber door and a three-pane fanlight at the centre. Flanking bays feature corniced and bracketed tripartite windows, all with blocking courses, and the first floor has regular fenestration. The south elevation has a part-glazed door located off-centre to the right, behind a small traditional conservatory. There are windows in the outer right bay at ground level and in the outer right and left bays on the first floor, along with a broad, shouldered wallhead stack at the centre.

The east elevation showcases a decorative-astragalled stair window with a small adjacent window to the right over the flat roof of a small extension, and another window in the right bay at ground level. The north elevation features a small window to the left of a single-storey lean-to extension, with coped screen walls to the east and west, each having a window on the return. There is a small lean-to porch on the return to the east, and steps lead down to a basement door at the outer right. The first floor has windows to the outer right and left, and there is a broad, shouldered wallhead stack at the centre.

The house has small-pane glazing patterns in timber sash and case windows, including a margined, decorative-astragalled, round-headed stair window. The roof is covered with graded grey slates, and the coped ashlar stacks have polygonal cans.

The interior was not seen in 1996.

There are outbuildings, including a slated, piend-roofed whinstone rubble structure, possibly a coach house, featuring a two-leaf timber door on the west and a 14-pane glazing pattern in a fixed window on the south. Another outbuilding is located abutting the boundary wall near the southeast corner of the house.

The boundary walls are made of coped rubble, with pyramidal-coped ashlar gatepiers and decorative cast-iron gates.

Local climate

Glenwood House, Glenwood Road, 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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