Murray House, Ramsay Lane, Limekilns is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 March 1978. House. 1 related planning application.

Murray House, Ramsay Lane, Limekilns

WRENN ID
roaming-sentry-sage
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Dunfermline and Dollar MP: Graeme Downie (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
17 March 1978
Type
House
Address
Murray House, Ramsay Lane, Limekilns, KY11 3HX
OS grid reference
NT 078 832
Coordinates
56.03301, -3.48046
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Murray House, located on Ramsay Lane in Limekilns, is an 18th-century building featuring a two-storey, three-bay main house on the left, with a modern two-storey, two-bay T-plan wing added in the 1990s on the right. To the far right, there is a single-storey, two-bay outhouse. The exterior is harled, with painted stone surrounds around the openings, a dressed eaves course, and vertical margins to the south arrises of the earlier house.

On the south elevation, the main entrance is a central replacement door flanked by windows, with three first-floor windows directly above. The right wing has regularly placed windows, with two on the ground floor and two on the first floor, while the outhouse has two windows. The west elevation shows a single ground and first-floor window to the right, and it is attached to 4 Ramsay Lane on the left. The north elevation is partially visible and features double-glazed patio doors to the rear wing, with a bipartite window above. The outhouse has garage doors. The east elevation displays a plain gable on the outhouse, with small first-floor windows on both sides of the house gable, a door with a window to the left, and a ground floor window to the right in the rear wing.

The interior was not seen in 2000. The earlier house predominantly features 12-pane timber sash and case windows with horns, though much of the fenestration has been replaced elsewhere. The rear wing has a modern rooflight. The earlier house has raised skews, skewputts, a pitched slate roof, and corniced gable apex stacks. The later house has a lower roofline with pitched, replacement slate and a square chimney projecting from the right gable wall. The outhouse has a steeply pitched roof covered in red clay pantiles, with slated lower courses, raised skews to the right, a skewputt, and a corniced stone gable apex chimney to the right.

Local climate

Murray House, Ramsay Lane, Limekilns receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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