32 Balbirnie Street, Markinch is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 March 1996. 1 related planning application.
32 Balbirnie Street, Markinch
- WRENN ID
- tilted-slate-gorse
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Glenrothes and Mid Fife MP: Richard Baker (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 1 March 1996
- Address
- 32 Balbirnie Street, Markinch, KY7 6DA
- OS grid reference
- NO 296 018
- Coordinates
- 56.20367, -3.13578
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
34 Balbirnie Street in Markinch is a pair of symmetrical, two-storey, six-bay houses built in 1893, designed in a T-plan and set within an irregular terrace. The exterior is constructed from squared sandstone with ashlar margins, while the rear is made of rubble. Notable features include an eaves course, roll-moulded door surrounds, stop-chamfered arrises, and stone mullions.
The south elevation, which serves as the entrance, is symmetrical. At the center, a large gable rises above the eaves, flanked by windows on both floors. A date plaque is located in the gablehead beneath the stack. The entrance features timber doors with plate glass fanlights in the flanking bays, and small gableheads with ball finials break the eaves of the outer right and left bays, each containing bipartite windows on both floors.
The windows are modern timber with plate glass glazing. The roof is covered with grey slates, and the gables have ashlar coped skews with moulded skewputts, culminating in a gabletted center gablehead. The coped ashlar stack includes cans, and there are cast-iron downpipes with decorative hoppers on the left side.
Local climate
32 Balbirnie 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 — 1 application
- 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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