Academy Cottage, 4 Academy Square, Limekilns is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 December 1971. House. 2 related planning applications.
Academy Cottage, 4 Academy Square, Limekilns
- WRENN ID
- inner-thatch-wren
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Dunfermline and Dollar MP: Graeme Downie (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 31 December 1971
- Type
- House
- Address
- Academy Cottage, 4 Academy Square, Limekilns, KY11 3HN
- OS grid reference
- NT 076 834
- Coordinates
- 56.03475, -3.48366
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Academy Cottage, located at 4 Academy Square in Limekilns, is an 18th-century, two-storey house with a rectangular plan featuring five bays. It has an attached two-storey, three-bay house to the east and an outshot to the south. The exterior is finished with white harling and has ashlar stone surrounds, along with crowstepped gables.
On the west elevation, which is the principal facade, there is a door at the third bay, a window to the right, a glazed door to the left, and a window at the far left. The first floor features tall, narrow windows, with three to the left of the entrance door and a right window centered above the ground floor window. A single-storey outshot is located at the far right with a door.
The north elevation includes a window in the right gable and a rear house gable set back to the left with a door. The east elevation has a central door flanked by windows, with three first-floor windows centered above. There is a plain wall of an earlier house set back to the right.
The south elevation features two gables that sit flush together, with a modern garage door to the right and a single first-floor window above it. There are single ground and first-floor windows to the right in the west gable, an outshot to the left, and a single window to the right.
The windows are predominantly 12-pane replacement timber sash and case windows with horns, while the principal elevation has two ground floor 16-pane timber sash and case windows. The earlier house has crowstepped gables with moulded skewputts, exposed stonework on the south crowsteps, and raised flat coping on the east house gables. The roof is double pitched, covered with red clay pantiles, and features corniced gable apex stacks on the west house and one south gable apex stack on the east house, along with polygonal clay cans.
The interior was not seen in 1999.
A rubble garden wall extends northwards from the north gable, running eastwards and south. There is a tall coped chimney stack in the northwest apex.
Local climate
Academy Cottage, 4 Academy Square, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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