177-179 High Street, Burntisland is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1977.
177-179 High Street, Burntisland
- WRENN ID
- graven-outpost-nettle
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1977
- Address
- 177-179 High Street, Burntisland, KY3 9AE
- OS grid reference
- NT 232 858
- Coordinates
- 56.05944, -3.23339
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
181 High Street in Burntisland is an 18th-century building with a later addition and modern alterations at the rear. It is a two-storey, L-plan structure featuring a two-storey addition at the angle, serving as a dwelling with shops on the ground floor, situated within an irregular terrace. The ground floor is finished in painted cement render, while the extension is made of squared and snecked whinstone with coursed ashlar. The rear is covered in dry-dash, and there are wide band courses and eaves courses.
On the south elevation facing High Street, there is a small shop at the center with a door to the right and a display window to the left. There is also a central door shop flanked by display windows on both sides. The first floor has three windows, with a piended roof to the right and a flat-roofed extension to the left.
The ground floor features fixed plate glass display windows, while the first floor right has a sash and case window with a 20-pane glazing pattern in the older part of the building. The extension has sash and case windows with a 4-pane glazing pattern. The roof is covered with modern red pantiles, and there is a coped and hipped ashlar stack with a can.
Local climate
177-179 High Street, Burntisland 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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