The Birds, North Street is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 August 2011. Sculpture.
The Birds, North Street
- WRENN ID
- quiet-turret-burdock
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Glenrothes and Mid Fife MP: Richard Baker (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 9 August 2011
- Type
- Sculpture
- OS grid reference
- NO 272 011
- Coordinates
- 56.19729, -3.17482
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Birds, located on North Street, is a sculpture created by Malcolm Robertson between 1980 and 1984. It features an abstract representation of a flock of birds taking flight. The sculpture is set on a moulded polymer-resin plinth that resembles a rocky outcrop. Above this, there is an asymmetric metal framework that supports an irregular arrangement of wing-shaped polymer-resin mouldings.
Local climate
The Birds, North Street receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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