43 And 45 Townsend Place, Kirkcaldy is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 February 1997. House. 1 related planning application.
43 And 45 Townsend Place, Kirkcaldy
- WRENN ID
- empty-gateway-sable
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 27 February 1997
- Type
- House
- Address
- 43 And 45 Townsend Place, Kirkcaldy, KY1 1HB
- OS grid reference
- NT 281 918
- Coordinates
- 56.11429, -3.15703
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
43 and 45 Townsend Place in Kirkcaldy is a later 19th-century, two-storey and attic house that forms the eastern end of a terrace. The building is constructed from squared and snecked rubble, featuring ashlar quoins and dressings, with base and eaves courses. It has stone mullions and chamfered arrises.
The south elevation is symmetrical, with a central bay that includes a pilastered doorcase topped with a block pediment. This doorcase features a deep-set panelled timber door and a plate glass fanlight above. On either side of the central bay are canted and corniced tripartite windows. Above, there is a window in the centre flanked by bipartite windows, and piended, canted tripartite dormer windows over the outer bays.
The west elevation presents a broad gable with a window to the left of centre on each floor, and a blank flat-roofed bay on the outer left.
The windows are timber sash and case, featuring small-pane and 4-pane glazing patterns. The building has coped ashlar stacks with some cans and ashlar-coped skews.
The boundary walls are low, with saddleback coping and semicircular coping made from rubble.
This building is listed for its well-preserved form and its position at the end of an irregular terrace.
Local climate
43 And 45 Townsend Place, Kirkcaldy 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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