Hope Cottage, 11 Academy Square, Limekilns is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 December 1971. House. 2 related planning applications.
Hope Cottage, 11 Academy Square, Limekilns
- WRENN ID
- under-trefoil-storm
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Dunfermline and Dollar MP: Graeme Downie (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 31 December 1971
- Type
- House
- Address
- Hope Cottage, 11 Academy Square, Limekilns, KY11 3HN
- OS grid reference
- NT 076 834
- Coordinates
- 56.03459, -3.48408
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Hope Cottage is an 18th-century, two-storey house located at 11 Academy Square in Limekilns. The exterior features white harling with ashlar surrounds to the openings and quoins.
On the east elevation, there is a door to the left, a central forestair with stone steps and a metal handrail, and a plank door located under the stairs. Above to the right, there is a decorative metal air vent, and on the first floor, there is a glazed and fixed timber door. Ground and first floor windows are situated to the right.
The south elevation has two ground floor and one first floor window, along with two square niches above in the gable. At the southeast angle, there is a two-faced corner sundial on the first floor, dated 1689, with gnomons facing south and east.
The north elevation is plain, featuring two first floor windows to the left. The west elevation is attached to 10 Academy Square.
Some of the windows are timber sash and case with horns, while others are timber, centrally pivoted windows. The roof is covered with modern pantiles, and the south gable wallhead has crowstepped detailing, beaked skewputts, and a stone gable apex stack, along with circular cans.
The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 1999.
Local climate
Hope Cottage, 11 Academy Square, Limekilns receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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