25 Tolbooth Street, Kirkcaldy is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 January 1971. Tenement. 4 related planning applications.
25 Tolbooth Street, Kirkcaldy
- WRENN ID
- slow-outpost-wind
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 January 1971
- Type
- Tenement
- Address
- 25 Tolbooth Street, Kirkcaldy, KY1 1RW
- OS grid reference
- NT 281 914
- Coordinates
- 56.11058, -3.15658
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
25 Tolbooth Street in Kirkcaldy is a three-storey, six-bay tenement building dated 1785. It features coursed rubble with some droved sections, harled sides and rear, and raised long and short quoins. The building has a base course over a rendered plinth, an eaves lintel course, and an eaves cornice. The doorcases are pedimented, with a carved date and floral designs above the lintel, and there is a door to the right with a pediment. The windows are arranged in vertical ashlar bands.
The west elevation is symmetrical, with a door located in the bay to the right of the centre, adorned with an anthemion on the pediment, and flanked by windows. The bays to the left of the centre also have a door and flanking windows. Each floor above has regular fenestration.
The east elevation features a round stair tower that projects at the centre, with two windows to the right and left of the centre on each floor. The building has 12- and 15-pane glazing patterns in timber sash and case windows, concrete pantiles, and ashlar-coped skews with scroll skewputts.
Local climate
25 Tolbooth Street, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- 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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