East Prinlaws, 47 Glenwood Road, Leslie is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 September 1979.

East Prinlaws, 47 Glenwood Road, Leslie

WRENN ID
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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Glenrothes and Mid Fife MP: Richard Baker (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
10 September 1979
OS grid reference
NO 247 011
Coordinates
56.19667, -3.21498
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

East Prinlaws, located at 49 Glenwood Road in Leslie, is a row of later 19th century cottages that have been altered and extended. The row consists of eight single-storey gabled flax-spinner's cottages, with No 49 now being two-storey, and a two-storey, two-bay manager's house that adjoins the gable end of a disused mill, forming an irregular terrace to the south. The cottages feature bracketed stone canopies over their windows and doors, and are constructed from squared and snecked whinstone, with contrasting dressed quoins and deeply chamfered arrises. The eaves are overhanging, and the rafters are exposed.

On the main elevation, the original design included four symmetrical pairs of M-gabled roofs with a central pend under a gablet roof in the valley, flanked by doors and windows in the outer bays. The manager's house, No 51, is slightly advanced, featuring a door to the left, a window to the right, and two gabled dormer heads that break the eaves, along with a 19th century rooflight on the outer left. No 49 has a flat-roofed first-floor extension that is harled and out of character, with two windows. No 37 has had its pend converted to a door, with the flanking doors now converted to windows, and the stone canopy is missing from No 45.

The windows are primarily plate glass glazing in sash and case style, except for Nos 37 and 41, which have top-opening modern windows, and No 49, which features pivot windows on the first floor. The roofs are covered with grey slates and have deeply overhanging eaves, with ashlar coped skews, square skewputts, and coped ashlar stacks, some of which have cans on No 51.

Local climate

East Prinlaws, 47 Glenwood Road, Leslie receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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