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Leslie Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plandemolished in the 1950s to construct the district known as The Barony. A tenementblock was also built over other 17 th century housing nearly opposite the Town Hall. Inthe 1970s other tenement blocks were built further up the High Street opposite thepublic car park.The old schoolhouse of 1877 which was located by Christ’s Kirk was demolished in the1960s to be replaced by simple detached and semi-detached buildings of nooutstanding architectural merit. The Greenside Hotel added a bleak modernistextension to three sides of its elevations which is strikingly obvious when viewed fromthe Commonty behind.Greenside Hotel & modernist extensionElsewhere in Leslie, the main street of Prinlaws village was demolished andredeveloped in 1957 when the flax mills (J.Fergus & Co.) closed. At the same time anew estate of houses and tenements were built on the north side of the High Street,called The Bowery, which won a Saltire Award for design in 1957.The Earls of Rothes & Leslie HouseThe Rothes and Leslie family originated from Aberdeenshire where most of their titleswere established. Their family has had a long and distinguished position in the historyof Scotland, with roots that can be traced back to a Hungarian nobleman in the retinueof Edgar the Atheling in 1067. Several members of the family have held powerfulpolitical positions.9
Leslie Conservation Area Appraisal and Management PlanGouache of Leslie House, Attributed to LaporteThe imposing Leslie House (originally called Villa De Rothes) was built for the Earls ofRothes during 1667-74 by John Mylne jun. and son Robert, to a design by Sir WilliamBruce. It was burnt down in 1763. The west wing was rebuilt in 1765 but other parts ofthe original house still survive. Sir Robert Lorimer made some alterations in 1906 to thewest front and remodelled the south gable. Defoe (1726) says:“The town of Lessly is at a small distance west from the house or a little north-west.There is a good market, but otherwise it is not considerable. The house is the glory ofthe place, and indeed of the whole province of Fife.”Leslie House 2008, prior to fire damage in early 200910
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