Library, Church Square, St Andrews is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 February 1971. Library. 1 related planning application.

Library, Church Square, St Andrews

WRENN ID
white-cellar-autumn
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
23 February 1971
Type
Library
Address
Library, Church Square, St Andrews, KY16 9NN
OS grid reference
NO 508 166
Coordinates
56.33986, -2.79592
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The building is a library located in Church Square, St Andrews. It was originally constructed as an English school in 1811 and was converted into a City Hall in 1845. The architect for the conversion was George Rae, and the building was reconstructed in 1927. It is a two-storey structure with five windows, featuring an ashlar exterior and a rusticated ground floor. The roof is piended and covered with slate. There is also a later wing that includes ground floor lavatories.

Local climate

Library, Church Square, 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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