Carlow Memorial Hall, Durie Street, Leven is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 September 1999. Church hall.
Carlow Memorial Hall, Durie Street, Leven
- WRENN ID
- over-cupola-myrtle
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 September 1999
- Type
- Church hall
- OS grid reference
- NO 383 009
- Coordinates
- 56.19683, -2.99542
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Carlow Memorial Hall, built in 1925 by A D Haxton, is a single-storey, four-bay gothic church hall located on Durie Street in Leven. The building has a rectangular plan and features a gabled porch. It is constructed from stugged squared and snecked rubble with ashlar dressings, and includes a raised base course and eaves course. The hall has pointed-arch openings, with tracery and hoodmoulds that have label stops. It is supported by three-stage battered saw-tooth coped buttresses, and includes voussoirs, raked cills, chamfered reveals, and stone mullions.
The northwest elevation, which is the principal elevation, features a low full-width porch. The central bay has a gabled and buttressed doorcase that is deeply moulded, with nookshafts and mask-stops. It contains a two-leaf panelled timber door topped by a five-light decoratively-astragalled small-pane fanlight. There are square-headed narrow flanking lights and tri-lobed hoodmoulded windows in the outer bays. Above, there is a large hoodmoulded window with curvilinear tracery set in the higher, set-back gable of the hall.
On the northeast elevation, there is a traceried two-light window with dividing buttresses in each of the four bays. The southwest elevation shows the lower gable of the porch, which has an arrow slit on the outer left, and traceried two-light windows with dividing buttresses in the centre and left bays. A modern lean-to extension is present on the right side.
The southeast elevation is harled with a gabled design and features a projecting piended roof of an 'apse' below a small pedimented former belfry that projects from the gablehead. The hall includes multi-pane leaded glazing with decoratively-astragalled margins and tracery, grey slates on the roof, and ashlar-coped skews with gablet skewputts. Cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers complete the exterior.
Inside, the hall boasts a good decorative scheme that includes panelled and boarded dadoes, moulded cornices, and part-glazed panelled timber doors. The interior also features a hammerbeam roof and a pointed 'apsidal' arch leading to the southeast dais.
Local climate
Carlow Memorial Hall, Durie Street, Leven receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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