St Mary's College, South Street, St Andrews is a Grade A listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 April 1959. College, principal's house.
St Mary's College, South Street, St Andrews
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-courtyard-ivy
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 April 1959
- Type
- College, principal's house
- OS grid reference
- NO 509 165
- Coordinates
- 56.33907, -2.79465
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St Mary's College, located on South Street in St Andrews, was founded in 1537 or 1538 and constructed between 1539 and 1541 on the site of an earlier pedagogy dating back to 1430. The building was overseen by Walter Marr, the Master of Works, and Thomas French, the master mason. It underwent reconstruction by Robert Reid in 1829 and 1830, which included the rebuilding of the entrance archway from the street.
The college is a two-storey structure with an attic, built from rubble, situated around a courtyard. It features a stair tower with a corbelled bell-cote at its center, as well as another stair tower with an ogee roof located in the re-entrant angle of the Principal's House. The south-facing frontage has three painted windows, with tall first-floor windows that have shafted surrounds. The building was remodeled in 1612, as indicated by a date on the structure. Additionally, there is an old coped garden wall dating from the 16th and 17th centuries, along with a detached gateway in the garden that dates from the 15th to the 17th centuries.
Local climate
St Mary's College, South Street, St Andrews receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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