66 High Street, Dunfermline is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 September 1980. Commercial building.
66 High Street, Dunfermline
- WRENN ID
- riven-clay-wagtail
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Dunfermline and Dollar MP: Graeme Downie (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 September 1980
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- 66 High Street, Dunfermline, KY12 7DF
- OS grid reference
- NT 091 874
- Coordinates
- 56.0715, -3.46157
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
66 High Street in Dunfermline is a commercial building designed by Andrew Scobie in 1901. It is three stories tall with an attic and has a rectangular plan. The building showcases Edwardian Free Style architecture, featuring a four-bay façade on the principal (south) elevation, which is divided by engaged columns with a moulded concave section. The upper bays include pedimented and oeil de boeuf windows, along with a turret-like corner bay topped with a conical roof.
The principal elevation is finished in polished sandstone ashlar, while the west elevation is constructed from stugged coursed dressed sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. Moulded band courses connect the window cills to the upper floors, and there is an upper band course that forms a frieze beneath the moulded eaves cornice. The second-floor windows feature bracketed projecting cills.
On the south (High Street) elevation, there is a glazed shopfront with a timber fascia that is bracketed on the outer right and has a mutule cornice at the ground floor. A recessed entrance is located to the right of the center, with curved glazing on the display windows for the two bays to the left. The turret-like corner bay on the outer left has an architraved window with a broken bed pediment on the first and second floors, topped with a conical roof and a ball-ended finial above the eaves cornice. The right side features large banded windows on the first and second floors, with rounded upper edges on the upper ones and fielded panels above the lower ones. The central bay is surmounted by a broken base that breaks the eaves pediment of the dormer window, which has an oval window with a garlanded architrave and a flanking balustrade.
The west (Cross Wynd) elevation includes a glazed shopfront to the right, with a timber fascia that is bracketed on the outer left and a mutule cornice at the ground floor. The corner bay to the right has curved glazing. The first and second floors have architraved windows, with the first-floor window adjacent to a band course at lintel level. Oeil de boeuf windows with splayed voussoirs are positioned at cardinal points flanking the first-floor window.
The building mainly features two and five-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is piended and covered with grey slate, topped with a louvred lantern at the apex. There is a rendered stack with round cans on the east side. The interior was not inspected in 1998.
Local climate
66 High Street, Dunfermline receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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