Glenelm, 5 Livingstone Lane, Aberdour is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 2 May 1973. House. 4 related planning applications.

Glenelm, 5 Livingstone Lane, Aberdour

WRENN ID
third-threshold-juniper
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
2 May 1973
Type
House
Address
Glenelm, 5 Livingstone Lane, Aberdour, KY3 0TS
OS grid reference
NT 191 852
Coordinates
56.05356, -3.3
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Glenelm, located at 5 Livingstone Lane in Aberdour, is an 18th-century building that has undergone later alterations. Originally a single-storey cottage, it has been transformed into a two-storey, two-bay house with a rectangular plan. The exterior is rendered with stone margins around the openings.

The northeast elevation, facing the street, is asymmetrical, featuring two high-set ground floor windows positioned to the off-centre right and far right, with a small window centered on the first floor.

The northwest elevation is mostly attached to the adjacent building at 6-7 Livingstone Lane. It retains the remains of the original cottage gable at the ground floor far left, with a small first floor window above it.

On the southwest elevation, which faces the garden, there is a door located off-centre to the left, flanked by windows. A single-storey flat-roofed outshot is set flush with the right window. The first floor features enlarged modern windows above the openings below.

The southeast elevation has a ground floor window set high to the right, with the remains of the gable end of the original cottage slightly advanced at shoulder height in the center and left. There is also a small first floor window at the far right.

The building features a modern timber door and various types of windows, including 12-pane timber sash and case, 4-pane timber sash and case, and modern timber casements. The roof is pitched and covered with red clay pantiles, with coped ashlar skews, rendered gable apex stacks, and circular chimney cans.

Local climate

Glenelm, 5 Livingstone Lane, Aberdour receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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