187 Balsusney Road, Kirkcaldy is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 March 1998. Cottage.

187 Balsusney Road, Kirkcaldy

WRENN ID
forbidden-mantel-sorrel
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
26 March 1998
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
NT 277 920
Coordinates
56.11581, -3.16428
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This building, located at 187 Balsusney Road in Kirkcaldy, dates back to 1894 and is a single-storey cottage with a piend roof. It features three bays and has a porch supported by Corinthian columns and topped with a pediment. The exterior is made of squared and snecked sandstone rubble, accented by contrasting quoins, and includes an eaves course. The building showcases stop-chamfered arrises and stone mullions.

On the northwest elevation, which serves as the entrance, the porch displays the date and a carved floral design on the tympanum, along with a deep-set timber door that has a plate glass fanlight above it. To the right of the porch, there is a canted tripartite window, while a bipartite window is located to the left. The cottage has plate glass glazing in top-opening timber windows that are not in keeping with the original character. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are shouldered wallhead stacks topped with polygonal cans.

Local climate

187 Balsusney 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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