8 High Street, Inverkeithing is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 July 1985. Tenement, shop. 1 related planning application.

8 High Street, Inverkeithing

WRENN ID
winding-groin-claret
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 July 1985
Type
Tenement, shop
Address
8 High Street, Inverkeithing, KY11 1NN
OS grid reference
NT 130 828
Coordinates
56.03103, -3.3974
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

8 High Street in Inverkeithing is an earlier 19th century building with an early 20th century shop front. It is a two-storey structure with an attic and a basement at the rear, featuring three bays and an additional curved bay to the south. The exterior is finished in painted stugged ashlar with stone cills, an eaves course, and carved scrolled skewputts. The Edwardian shop front includes Art Nouveau stained glass and a stained glass fanlight to the left, along with two large canted and gabled dormers.

On the west elevation, there is a recessed doorway located off-centre to the right, leading to a plate glass and timber Edwardian shop front adorned with Art Nouveau stained glass roundels and decorative lead astragals in the upper panes. To the far left, there is a timber panelled tenement door with an Art Nouveau stained glass fanlight above. The first floor features four unevenly spaced windows, and the two large gabled and canted dormers have slate cheeks.

The south elevation adjoins No 10 High Street. The east (rear) elevation has three bays, with a central basement door that is blocked with sheet metal and a small window to the left. There are three ground floor windows with iron bars, with the central window being smaller. The first floor also has three unevenly spaced windows, and there is a slate hung box dormer.

The north elevation adjoins Nos 4 and 4a High Street. Late 20th century uPVC windows have been installed on the first and attic floors. The building has a pitched roof covered with graded grey slates, straight stone skews, carved scrolled skewputts, a coped brick stack to the south, and circular clay cans.

As of 2003, no original features remain in the interior.

Local climate

8 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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