54 High Street, Inverkeithing is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 December 1979. Townhouse. 1 related planning application.
54 High Street, Inverkeithing
- WRENN ID
- heavy-grate-hawk
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 19 December 1979
- Type
- Townhouse
- Address
- 54 High Street, Inverkeithing, KY11 1NN
- OS grid reference
- NT 129 827
- Coordinates
- 56.03, -3.39854
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
54 High Street in Inverkeithing is a two-storey and attic, three-bay town house built in 1830, which now includes a shop and a flat above. The building is constructed from coursed and droved sandstone with Aberdeen bonding and has been rendered on the east side. The base course is interrupted by a later shop front, featuring dressed openings and stone cills, along with piended dormers.
The north elevation is symmetrical, showcasing a central glazed and timber panelled door with a left-hand side light and a horizontal fanlight. Flanking the door are shop windows, and above them is a dentilled and corniced fascia board with geometric consoles. There are three first-floor windows, with the central window boarded. The attic storey features recessed polygonal piended dormers, and a skew-putt is dated "1830".
On the west elevation, there is a large shop window to the left, topped by an ornamental fascia, and a late 20th-century timber boarded door to the right that leads to 56 High Street. Above the door is a blind first-floor window, with another window to the right above the shop front.
The south elevation is adjacent to shops and a tenement. The east elevation has a timber boarded door off-centre to the left and a window with iron bars to the left, along with a first-floor window to the left.
The shop features plate glass windows, while the first floor has 12-pane uPVC sash and case windows, and the dormer windows are 2-pane uPVC sash and case. The pitched roof is covered with graded grey slates, and the building has straight ashlar skews and truncated gablehead stacks.
Inside, there is early to earlier 20th-century shelving and a trading counter in the shop. The upper floor was not seen during the last inspection in 2003.
Local climate
54 High Street, Inverkeithing 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 greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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 — 1 application
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