St Leonards School Library, Queen Mary's House, 4 South Street, St Andrews is a Grade A listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 April 1959. House. 2 related planning applications.
St Leonards School Library, Queen Mary's House, 4 South Street, St Andrews
- WRENN ID
- lesser-pinnacle-ridge
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 April 1959
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NO 512 166
- Coordinates
- 56.33954, -2.78991
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St Leonards School Library, located in Queen Mary's House on South Street in St Andrews, is a significant building that dates back to around 1523, with remodels occurring around 1590 and again in the 17th and 18th centuries. This three-storey structure features a six-window front made of 18th-century rubble, facing the street, and includes a Gibbs surround around the doorpiece. The building has an L-plan layout towards the garden, constructed with ashlar stone, and features an angle oriel on the wing. There is a four-storey crow-stepped stair tower positioned in the re-entrant angle, along with a fine mid-Georgian porch that has a pediment and an arched doorpiece with a rusticated architrave. The interior of the building is noteworthy. The building was restored by Reginald Fairlie in 1927, and there is an 18th-century grotto located in the garden.
Local climate
St Leonards School Library, Queen Mary's House, 4 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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