Osborne Hotel, Durie Street, Leven is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 September 1979. House, hotel.
Osborne Hotel, Durie Street, Leven
- WRENN ID
- lesser-truss-crag
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 10 September 1979
- Type
- House, hotel
- OS grid reference
- NO 383 008
- Coordinates
- 56.19646, -2.99557
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Osborne Hotel, located on Durie Street in Leven, is an early 19th century, two-storey, three-bay building designed in a T-plan with a piend roof. The exterior features droved ashlar and harl, along with a base course, eaves cornice, and blocking course.
On the northwest elevation, which is the principal facade, there is a Roman Doric pilastered doorpiece in the center bay at ground level, featuring a panelled timber door and a sunburst-astragalled semicircular fanlight. Windows are present in the flanking bays, and there is a pall stone at the outer left angle. The first floor has regular fenestration.
The southeast elevation includes a lower piended projection at the center and a modern extension that projects at ground level, with three windows on the first floor.
The southwest elevation has a modern extension at ground level and a prominent shouldered wallhead stack in the center. The building features 12-pane and plate glass glazing patterns in timber sash and case windows, grey slates on the roof, and moulded coping on the shouldered ashlar stacks.
Local climate
Osborne Hotel, Durie Street, 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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