Listed Building

The only legal part of the listing under the Planning (Listing Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 is the address/name of site. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing – see 'About Listed Buildings' below for more information. The further details below the 'Address/Name of Site' are provided for information purposes only.

Address/Name of Site

5 LESLIE MAINS, KEEPERS HOUSELB6800

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
22/12/1994
Local Authority
Fife
Planning Authority
Fife
Parish
Leslie (Fife)
NGR
NO 26148 1963
Coordinates
326148, 701963

Description

'Circa 1950', re-working and possible extension of building on site. Irregular single and 2-storey, 3-bay, gabled traditional Arts and Crafts house. Bull-faced, squared and snecked stone with polished ashlar margins and long and short work quoins, stone mullions and chamfered arrises; side and rear elevations of random rubble.

W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: asymmetrical 2-storey bay to left. Wooden, partially glazed door with adjacent small slit window to left of centre under swept-roof porch extending from main roof pitch, outer left corner supported by doric column with right sweep supported on ashlar corbel and wall of outer bay. Gabled dormer over ground floor bipartite window to right, bipartite window to left with slightly reduced bipartite window at 1st floor in gable; small stone gabled dormer window over door at centre abutting full-height bay to left.

E ELEVATION: single storey. Door with adjacent slit window in advanced right bay with lean-to roof abutting gable end, centre bay with 2 irregular windows and roof-light, outer left bay blank with modern dormer.

N ELEVATION: gablet to left of 2-storey block with windows at both levels, lean-to bay to outer left with door to coal store.

S ELEVATION: single storey gable end with window bay to outer right.

Lying 10-pane glazing pattern in sash and case windows, modern dormer with 3-pane plate glass and fanlight. Grey slates. Coped ashlar stacks and overhanging eaves.

Statement of Special Interest

Good Arts and Crafts style dog-leg staircase with ceiling height corner posts, dado rail in drawing room. Current resident of number 4 Leslie Mains lived in this house in the early 1950s when it was adapted and extended as housing for the Head Forrester of the Leslie estate.

References

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Information courtesy of former resident.

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

Listed building records provide an indication of the special architectural or historic interest of the listed building which has been identified by its statutory address. The description and additional information provided are supplementary and have no legal weight.

These records are not definitive historical accounts or a complete description of the building(s). If part of a building is not described it does not mean it is not listed. The format of the listed building record has changed over time. Earlier records may be brief and some information will not have been recorded.

The legal part of the listing is the address/name of site which is known as the statutory address. Other than the name or address of a listed building, further details are provided for information purposes only. Historic Environment Scotland does not accept any liability for any loss or damage suffered as a consequence of inaccuracies in the information provided. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing. Even if a number or name is missing from a listing address it will still be listed. Listing covers both the exterior and the interior and any object or structure fixed to the building. Listing also applies to buildings or structures not physically attached but which are part of the curtilage (or land) of the listed building as long as they were erected before 1 July 1948.

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