178 High Street, Kirkcaldy is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 February 1997. Tenement.
178 High Street, Kirkcaldy
- WRENN ID
- fallow-postern-burdock
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 27 February 1997
- Type
- Tenement
- Address
- 178 High Street, Kirkcaldy, KY1 1JW
- OS grid reference
- NT 280 915
- Coordinates
- 56.11105, -3.15796
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
178 High Street in Kirkcaldy is a later 19th-century, three-storey and attic, three-bay tenement building that has been altered at the ground level. The structure is built of ashlar stone and features stone cills and an eaves cornice.
On the north elevation facing High Street, there is a panelled timber door with a six-pane fanlight located to the outer left at ground level. To the right, there is a deep-set glazed shop door and a display window across the centre, all beneath a deep fascia. The display window extends from the adjacent property at No. 176 to the outer right. The first and second floors each have three windows, and there are flat-roofed timber dormer windows over the outer bays.
The second-floor and dormer windows feature a 12-pane glazing pattern in timber sash and case style, while the first-floor windows have plate glass glazing with a three-pane top-opening design. The ground level includes a fixed display window. The roof is covered with grey slates.
Local climate
178 High 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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