Gate House, St Leonard's Mill, St Leonard's Place, Kinghorn is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 March 2000. Gatehouse.

Gate House, St Leonard's Mill, St Leonard's Place, Kinghorn

WRENN ID
swift-doorway-claret
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
9 March 2000
Type
Gatehouse
Address
Gate House, St Leonard's Mill, St Leonard's Place, Kinghorn, KY3 9TL
OS grid reference
NT 270 871
Coordinates
56.07169, -3.17405
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Gate House at St Leonard's Mill, located on St Leonard's Place in Kinghorn, was likely built around 1838. This two-storey, three-bay former gatehouse features dressed squared and snecked rubble with raised ashlar quoin strips, while the rear is finished with dry-dash. It has an eaves course and includes segmental-arched and circular openings.

On the southeast elevation, which serves as the entrance, there is a canted face with a part-glazed timber door in the center, flanked by narrow lights in the adjacent bays, and a window in each bay on the first floor. The southwest elevation has a cart arch that has been converted into a window in the bay to the left of center, with another window to the right and a smaller window to the outer left. The first floor features three regularly spaced windows, with those in the first and second bays flanking a glazed oculus. The northwest elevation has a gabled design with two modern windows on the first floor, while the ground floor details are obscured by a screen wall.

The windows are timber sash and case with 6- and 12-pane glazing patterns, except for the modern windows. The roof is covered with graded grey slate. The property is also surrounded by rubble boundary walls.

Local climate

Gate House, St Leonard's Mill, St Leonard's Place, Kinghorn 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 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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