52-58 Vicar Street, Falkirk is a Grade B listed building in the Falkirk local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 June 2002. Tenement. 3 related planning applications.
52-58 Vicar Street, Falkirk
- WRENN ID
- far-pier-violet
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Falkirk
- Constituency
- Falkirk MP: Euan Stainbank (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 June 2002
- Type
- Tenement
- Address
- 52-58 Vicar Street, Falkirk, FK1 1JB
- OS grid reference
- NS 888 801
- Coordinates
- 56.00166, -3.78458
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
52-58 Vicar Street is a late 19th century, three-storey, four-bay classical tenement located on a corner site, featuring shops on the ground floor. The building is constructed of ashlar stone and includes a ground floor cornice, cill courses on the first and second floors, an eaves cornice, and a balustrade. The windows are architraved, with heavy, consoled segmental pediments above the first floor.
On the east elevation, the ground floor has a modern timber door in the center, flanked by two small shops with deep-set doors on the left and a further shop on the right with a deep-set door and two display windows to the left. The center bays have single windows, while the outer bays feature bipartite windows on each floor above, complemented by a shouldered wallhead stack and a flanking balustrade.
The northeast corner has a door that has been altered to a window, flanked by pilasters and decorative scrolled consoles beneath a dentilled cornice. There is a single window on the first and second floors with a balustrade above.
On the north elevation, there are five irregular display windows at ground level with a fascia above, and three windows (grouped as two and one) on each floor above. This elevation also features two shouldered wallhead stacks connected by a balustrade. The building has plate glass glazing in timber sash and case windows, except for the second floor on the east side where the center and left bays have modern glazing. The stacks are coped and shouldered ashlar.
Inside, the shop interiors at numbers 52 and 54 retain decorative plasterwork cornicing, although some of it is obscured.
Local climate
52-58 Vicar Street, Falkirk sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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 sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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