1-7 Queen's Court, Commercial School Lane, Dunfermline is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 January 1971. Former schoolhouse, flats. 1 related planning application.

1-7 Queen's Court, Commercial School Lane, Dunfermline

WRENN ID
unlit-postern-hawk
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Dunfermline and Dollar MP: Graeme Downie (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 January 1971
Type
Former schoolhouse, flats
Address
1-7 Queen's Court, Commercial School Lane, Dunfermline, KY12 7JD
OS grid reference
NT 094 874
Coordinates
56.07091, -3.45597
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

1-7 Queen's Court is a three-storey, five-bay detached building with a rectangular plan, dating from 1816. Originally built as a schoolhouse, it has since been converted into flats. The building features a classical design, highlighted by flanking Doric columns at the main entrance. The exterior is harled with droved sandstone ashlar dressings, including a base course, a moulded eaves band, and channelled angle quoins on the principal south elevation. Architraved windows are present throughout.

The south elevation, which is the principal façade, has a projecting central entrance bay. The entrance is framed by an ashlar surround and engaged Doric columns that support an entablature. It features a six-panel timber door with a replacement fanlight above. There is a flat-lintelled Palladian window with false side lights that are blocked and painted. Each flanking bay contains two windows set back on each floor. To the right, a single-storey wing, likely the schoolmaster's house, has one window.

On the north elevation, there is one window in each bay on every floor, while the single-storey wing has one large and one small window set back slightly to the left. The east elevation features an entrance to the single-storey wing at the centre, with the main block set back and blank. The west elevation has windows centered on the first and second floors.

The building has 12-pane timber sash and case windows and piended grey slate roofs. Coped wallhead stacks are located on both the east and west sides, with round cans. Inside, there is a late 20th-century staircase at the centre, but the individual flats were not inspected in 1998.

Local climate

1-7 Queen's Court, Commercial School Lane, Dunfermline receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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