Former Waid Academy Annexe, Crail Road, Anstruther is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 June 2015. School. 1 related planning application.
Former Waid Academy Annexe, Crail Road, Anstruther
- WRENN ID
- hushed-foundation-equinox
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 10 June 2015
- Type
- School
- OS grid reference
- NO 565 036
- Coordinates
- 56.22375, -2.70263
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Former Waid Academy Annexe, designed by William Williamson in 1901, is a single-storey, 9-bay school building with a broadly T-shaped plan and features Art Nouveau influences. The building has symmetrical gables, with a slightly advanced 3-bay gable at the center, flanked by dormer windows that have pointed-arch pediments breaking the eaves at the 2nd and 8th bays. It is constructed from squared and snecked sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and an ashlar base course. The gables and dormers are adorned with carved thistle motifs.
A timber roof lantern with slightly battered angles is topped with classical hoodmoulds, an ogee-cap, and a metal weathervane finial. The rear of the building features rounded and corbelled corner angles, as well as rounded pediments on the dormers that break the eaves. The roofs have a slightly swept pitch and are piended.
The windows predominantly feature multi-pane glazing in timber sash and case frames, and the building has cast iron rainwater goods and grey slate roofing. In front of the building, there is a sloping grassed bank with a stepped retaining wall that has chamfered copes. The 1955 addition to the west elevation by Fife County Architects is not considered of special interest in listing terms.
Local climate
Former Waid Academy Annexe, Crail Road, Anstruther receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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 sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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