Obertal, Largo Road, Leven is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 March 1986. Villa. 1 related planning application.
Obertal, Largo Road, Leven
- WRENN ID
- third-rotunda-root
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 27 March 1986
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- Obertal, Largo Road, Leven, KY8 4TB
- OS grid reference
- NO 387 020
- Coordinates
- 56.20716, -2.98893
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Obertal is a modern villa built in the 1930s, featuring two storeys and two bays, characterized by its flat roof and parapets. The exterior is finished in dry-dash with concrete dressings, including a base course, part ground floor cornice, horizontal banding on the first floor, an eaves cornice, and flat coping.
On the southeast elevation, the main entrance is located in a bay to the right of center, featuring a doorway with stepped reveals and a two-leaf panelled timber door. To the right of the door is a narrow light, and to the left is a broad shallow projecting window. The first floor has two windows with corniced angles that lead to iron railings, and there is a plain parapet in the center. A set-back square sun-lounge is positioned against the wallhead stacks to the left.
The southwest elevation includes two small windows to the right of center on the ground floor, with a bipartite window above that is flanked by two wallhead stacks on either side of the sun-lounge window.
On the northeast elevation, there are windows on the outer right and left at ground level, along with a further modern window off-center to the left on the first floor, and a wallhead stack in the center above.
The villa features a horizontal glazing pattern with steel glazing bars on the steel casement windows. The interior, not seen in 1999, includes a composition floor in the vestibule and a horizontally-glazed timber door.
The property is enclosed by coped brick and dry-dash boundary walls.
Local climate
Obertal, Largo Road, 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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