Royal Bank Of Scotland, 268 High Street, Leslie is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 December 1994. Bank.

Royal Bank Of Scotland, 268 High Street, Leslie

WRENN ID
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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Glenrothes and Mid Fife MP: Richard Baker (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
22 December 1994
Type
Bank
OS grid reference
NO 249 017
Coordinates
56.20208, -3.21099
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Royal Bank of Scotland, located at 268 High Street in Leslie, is a single-storey, three-bay bank building that likely dates from around 1930 and may have been designed by Peddie and Walker Todd. It is part of a short, irregular terrace and features traditional Scottish architectural details. The rear of the building has been altered with a modern flat roof extension.

The exterior is constructed from squared and snecked sandstone, with an ashlar base course and dressings. The windows have deeply chamfered jambs, and there is an eaves fascia band.

On the north elevation, there is a centrally located door with an architraved surround and a consoled cornice that breaks the eaves, featuring an Art Deco carved panel below. The entrance consists of two-leaf panelled doors and a rectangular fanlight with a leaded glazing pattern that bears a cipher, along with two-leaf, part-glazed inner doors. Flanking the entrance are wide window openings that are glazed with canted small-pane windows. A night deposit box is situated below the window to the right.

The east gable has a steeply pitched roof with an ashlar coped skew and skewblock, along with a coped ashlar gablehead stack. The roof is covered with green slates, and there is a decorative rainwater hopper.

Local climate

Royal Bank Of Scotland, 268 High Street, 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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