Museum Lodge, Bennochy Road, Kirkcaldy is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 February 1997. Lodge house.

Museum Lodge, Bennochy Road, 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
Lodge house
OS grid reference
NT 275 917
Coordinates
56.11254, -3.16619
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Museum Lodge, located on Bennochy Road in Kirkcaldy, dates from around 1925 and is likely designed by Heiton & Mackay. This crowstepped lodge house features stugged squared and snecked rubble with droved ashlar quoins and an eaves course. The west doorway has roll-moulded and stop-chamfered arrises.

On the southeast elevation, there is a corniced, canted tripartite window at the ground level, with a window in the gablehead above it, and a small window in a flat-roofed porch to the left. The west (entrance) elevation has a lower advanced gabled bay on the left with a window in the gablehead, a blank bay to the outer left, and a corniced flat-roofed bay with a panelled timber door in the re-entrant angle to the right.

The east elevation features two windows at ground level and a window in the center above, which breaks the eaves into a crowstepped dormer gablet. The north (entrance) elevation has a broad gable with a window in the center at ground level and in the gablehead, a timber door to the right with a small window above, and a blocked window to the left.

The windows are timber sash and case with plate glass glazing. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are cavetto-coped ashlar stacks with cans and ashlar-coped skews featuring moulded skewputts. The property is enclosed by low saddleback-coped boundary walls.

Local climate

Museum Lodge, Bennochy Road, 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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