5 Playfair Terrace, St Andrews is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 February 1971.

5 Playfair Terrace, St Andrews

WRENN ID
weathered-ember-scarlet
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
23 February 1971
Address
5 Playfair Terrace, St Andrews, KY16 9HX
OS grid reference
NO 506 169
Coordinates
56.34215, -2.80045
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

4 Playfair Terrace in St Andrews is a two-storey building with a basement and attic, designed by architect George Rae and begun in 1846. It features a late neo-Greek style with an ashlar facade, a channelled ground floor, and a twin gable center topped with palmette finials and a slated roof. The adjacent buildings, Nos. 6 and 8, have been altered, while No. 1 has a modern porch.

Local climate

5 Playfair Terrace, 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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  1. 6 Playfair Terrace, St Andrews Grade B 8 m
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  5. 8 Playfair Terrace, St Andrews Grade B 20 m
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