16 Betson Street, Markinch is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 March 1996. 4 related planning applications.
16 Betson Street, Markinch
- WRENN ID
- tenth-stronghold-pine
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Glenrothes and Mid Fife MP: Richard Baker (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 1 March 1996
- Address
- 16 Betson Street, Markinch, KY7 6AA
- OS grid reference
- NO 296 017
- Coordinates
- 56.20299, -3.13551
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
12 and 14 Betson Street in Markinch is a two-storey and attic gabled shop and tenement built in 1906 by J M Scott, featuring Scottish 17th century architectural details. The building has a corbelled bartizan and a stone balcony, constructed from dressed squared and snecked rubble with harl on the sides and polished ashlar dressings. It includes roll-moulded door surrounds and stone mullions.
The east elevation has four bays, with three nearly symmetrical bays and an irregular bay on the outer right. The three central bays consist of gabled outer sections, featuring a tripartite window on the ground floor to the left and a tripartite shopfront on the ground floor to the right, which includes a small-pane fanlight and paired doors at the center. Above this, a stone balustrade shields a recessed bay. The gables have paired windows on the first floor and smaller windows in the gableheads. The outer right bay has a transomed window on the ground floor to the left, a wall-mounted post box below, a bipartite window above, and a three-light corbelled bartizan at the right corner.
The building mainly features small-pane glazing patterns in timber sash and case windows, with fixed windows at the ground right (Post Office No 12). The roof is covered with graded grey slates, and the building has ashlar coped skews with flat skewputts and stylised baluster finials. The coped harl has ashlar stacks and cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers.
Local climate
16 Betson Street, Markinch receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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