Clock, Links Street, Kirkcaldy is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 February 1997. Clock.

Clock, Links Street, Kirkcaldy

WRENN ID
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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
27 February 1997
Type
Clock
OS grid reference
NT 278 904
Coordinates
56.10105, -3.16202
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This is a cast-iron clock from the later 19th century, located on Links Street in Kirkcaldy. It features a corniced and fielded pedestal with a handle on the east side marked 'ALDAM'. The shaft is adorned with S-scroll brackets that angle against a fluted base, and it includes decorative elements such as poppy seed pods and a rosette detail on the stem. The stiff-leaf capital supports a round clock face that displays Roman numerals.

Local climate

Clock, Links Street, Kirkcaldy receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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