Approximate Location Map
Large Map »
Latitude: 56.2072 / 56°12'25"N
Longitude: -2.9889 / 2°59'20"W
OS Eastings: 338751
OS Northings: 702060
OS Grid: NO387020
Mapcode National: GBR 2J.DSKJ
Mapcode Global: WH7SP.17ZV
Plus Code: 9C8V6246+VC
Entry Name: Obertal, Largo Road, Leven
Listing Name: Largo Road, Obertal (Formerly Nia-Roo) with Boundary Walls
Listing Date: 27 March 1986
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 382427
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB37352
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Leven, Largo Road, Obertal
ID on this website: 200382427
Location: Leven
County: Fife
Town: Leven
Electoral Ward: Leven, Kennoway and Largo
Traditional County: Fife
Tagged with: Architectural structure
1930s. Modern 2-storey, 2-bay Modern Movement villa with flat roof and parapets. Dry-dash with concrete dressings. Base course, part ground floor cornice, horizontal 1st floor banding, eaves cornice and flat-coping.
SE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: doorway with stepped reveals and 2-leaf panelled timber door in bay to right of centre at ground, narrow light beyond to right and broad shallow projecting window to left; 2 windows to 1st floor with corniced angles giving way to iron railings, and plain parapet to centre. Set-back square sun-lounge abutting wallhead stacks to left.
SW ELEVATION: 2 small windows to right of centre at ground, bipartite window above giving way to 2 wallhead stacks flanking sun-lounge window.
NE ELEVATION: windows to outer right and left at ground, further window (modern) off-centre left at 1st floor and wallhead stack to centre above.
Horizontal glazing pattern with steel glazing bars to steel casement windows.
INTERIOR: not seen 1999. Composition floor to vestibule with horizontally-glazed timber door.
BOUNDARY WALLS: coped brick and dry-dash boundary walls.
In 1932, an Ideal Home competition, sponsored by the Daily Mail, was won by Mrs Reid a Glasgow schoolteacher. Her design, known as 'the house that Jean built', was a "double-fronted, 2-storey house with roof-garden, top conservatory and corner windows", McKean continues "the only house in Scotland, so far discovered, that even approaches this prototype is Obertal".
External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.
Other nearby listed buildings
