Community Centre, Kinnear Street, Victoria Street, Buckhaven is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 March 1999. Community centre. 1 related planning application.
Community Centre, Kinnear Street, Victoria Street, Buckhaven
- WRENN ID
- open-loggia-furze
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Glenrothes and Mid Fife MP: Richard Baker (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 March 1999
- Type
- Community centre
- Address
- Community Centre, Kinnear Street, Victoria Street, Buckhaven, KY8 1BH
- OS grid reference
- NT 356 980
- Coordinates
- 56.17095, -3.03746
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Community Centre on Kinnear Street, Victoria Street, Buckhaven, was designed by Peter Sinclair in 1925. This two-storey, three-bay building features a rectangular plan and a piend roof, showcasing a sub-Wrenaissance style. The exterior is harled with contrasting red sandstone dressings, including a chamfered base course and cornice. The entrance has a channelled pilastered doorcase topped with a deep cornice and a keystoned semicircular pediment, along with stone mullions.
On the west elevation facing Victoria Street, the design is symmetrical. The ground floor features a central two-leaf door flanked by bipartite windows, while the first floor has a central bay with a corbelled gabled panel that displays a datestone. This gablehead includes an arrowslit and flanking stylised pilasters that break the eaves, topped by a finialled clock-cupola at the roof ridge, with bipartite windows in the side bays.
The north elevation facing Kinnear Street has asymmetrical fenestration with a mix of elements, including tripartite windows in gabled bays and a pedimented round-headed window in a corbelled panel. A modern entrance is located on the outer left.
The building features multi-pane glazing patterns in top-opening timber windows and is covered with bright red pantiles. The stacks are coped with harling, and the skews are ashlar-coped with moulded skewputts.
Inside, there are panelled dadoes, and the entrance hall has a glazed tile dado with panelled sections above, along with a panelled ceiling that features decorative plasterwork cornicing and round-arched openings supported by moulded brackets. The small hall has a coomb ceiling, with Ionic pilasters flanking the stage, which has a stepped cornice and decorative cast-iron ventilators. The former snooker room also has a coomb ceiling and plain cornice, along with decorative cast-iron ventilators. The gents' toilet includes ceramic tiles and a urinal.
Local climate
Community Centre, Kinnear Street, Victoria Street, Buckhaven 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 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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