254 St Clair Street, Kirkcaldy is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 March 1998. Commercial premises. 1 related planning application.
254 St Clair Street, Kirkcaldy
- WRENN ID
- unlit-frieze-cream
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1998
- Type
- Commercial premises
- Address
- 254 St Clair Street, Kirkcaldy, KY1 2DB
- OS grid reference
- NT 294 934
- Coordinates
- 56.1286, -3.13687
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
254 St Clair Street in Kirkcaldy is a late 19th-century, two-storey, three-bay commercial building featuring a Second Empire domed pavilion. The exterior is made of cleaned stone ashlar with channelled pilasters on the first floor, while the ground floor has lined cement render, and the sides are finished with courses and squared rubble. The building includes a dividing band course, frieze, and cavetto cornice, along with stone mullions.
On the west elevation, the ground floor has been converted into a modern restaurant, with a blocked door on the outer right. The first floor features a central bay with a tripartite window beneath a carved stone panel that displays 'beehive' and 'EST'D 1891'. This window breaks the eaves and is topped by a mutule segmental pediment, flanked by pilaster strips with floreate carved corbels that rise to ball-finialled polygonal turrets. The outer bays contain bipartite windows, also flanked by pilaster strips with fluted capitals. A large dome sits above the central bay, crowned with a substantial decorative lead finial.
The windows are fitted with plate glass glazing in timber sash and case style, while the ground floor features fixed display windows. The dome is covered in grey slates arranged in a fish-scale pattern. The building has a cavetto-coped ashlar stack with polygonal cans to the north, while the southern stack is truncated. Ashlar-coped skews and cast-iron downpipes with decorative cast-iron hoppers complete the structure.
Local climate
254 St Clair 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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