West House, 90 Main Street, Coaltown Of Balgonie is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 March 1996. House.
West House, 90 Main Street, Coaltown Of Balgonie
- WRENN ID
- other-pedestal-autumn
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Glenrothes and Mid Fife MP: Richard Baker (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 1 March 1996
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NT 299 996
- Coordinates
- 56.18399, -3.13051
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
West House, located at 90 Main Street in Coaltown of Balgonie, is an earlier 19th century two-storey, three-bay house that forms part of a terraced pair. The building features a combination of ashlar, random rubble, and harl, with rusticated quoins and polished margins. It has an eaves cornice and architraved openings, with the southern openings corniced and featuring a fluted frieze at ground level.
The south elevation, which serves as the entrance, is symmetrical. It has a deep-set modern door in a corniced doorcase at the center, flanked by windows in the adjacent bays, with regular fenestration on the first floor.
On the west elevation, there is a window to the right of center on the first floor, a small attic window slightly off center to the right, and a broad gablehead stack.
The north elevation is largely obscured, featuring a low, flat-roofed extension at ground level and a modern window to the right on the first floor.
The building has top-opening modern windows and is covered with brown pantiles. It features cavetto coped ashlar stacks with clay cans, ashlar coped skews with decorative scroll skewputts, and thackstanes.
Additionally, there is a boundary wall made of coped rubble, along with a decorative cast iron gate and railings.
Local climate
West House, 90 Main Street, Coaltown Of Balgonie 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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