248 High Street, Leslie is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 December 1994.

248 High Street, Leslie

WRENN ID
solitary-clay-primrose
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Glenrothes and Mid Fife MP: Richard Baker (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
22 December 1994
OS grid reference
NO 250 017
Coordinates
56.20257, -3.20956
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

242 High Street in Leslie is a cottage built in the earlier to mid 19th century. It is a single storey structure with a part-basement and attic, featuring three bays and situated on sloping ground to the west, next to an irregular terrace.

The north elevation, which is the principal façade, is symmetrical. It has a deep-set panelled door at the center, topped with a 2-pane fanlight, flanked by windows in the outer bays. Above these, there are tile-hung piended dormers. To the right, there are two narrow basement windows.

The east elevation has a small window opening in the gablehead. The south elevation features a door to the right of center, with a window at the outer right and three windows to the left. There is also a two-bay part-basement with a door to the right and a window to the left.

The cottage has uPVC windows with a 12-pane glazing pattern, while the rear and front basement have sash and case windows with small-pane glazing. The roof is covered with red pantiles, and features ashlar coped skews and cavetto coped gablehead stacks.

In front, there are decorated ironwork railings with pal stones at the east corner and at the house. A coped whinstone rubble wall encloses the rear east side.

At the back of the property, there is an 18th-century outbuilding that was doubled in size in the earlier to mid 19th century, making it contemporary with the main house. This two-storey structure has a part-basement to the north and an irregular plan with a pend. It is constructed of random whinstone rubble, featuring large lintels and small window openings. The roof is also covered with red pantiles, and it has ashlar skews and coped ashlar gablehead stacks, along with an ashlar and brick stack to the south.

Local climate

248 High Street, 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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