33 East Port, Dunfermline is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 February 1997. Office building. 2 related planning applications.

33 East Port, Dunfermline

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Dunfermline and Dollar MP: Graeme Downie (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
18 February 1997
Type
Office building
Address
33 East Port, Dunfermline, KY12 7JE
OS grid reference
NT 093 874
Coordinates
56.07156, -3.45723
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

33 East Port in Dunfermline is a three-storey office building and showroom designed by R H Motion between 1938 and 1939. It features a rectangular plan and is built on sloping ground, showcasing a geometrical design typical of the Modern Movement. The building has flat roofs and interlocked cubic forms, with a single-storey showroom that projects from the main northern elevation. The exterior is rendered, and the main roofs have low coped parapets.

The principal elevation is symmetrical, with a projecting ground floor that includes a recessed central entrance surrounded by glass. The entrance features a replacement two-leaf glazed steel door, flanked by large showroom windows that are canted inward towards the entrance, with an inlaid floor between them. The roof above the entrance is canted out towards the center, aligning with the entrance, and there is a base course at the parapet. A narrow central bay with flanking pilasters is set back on the first and second floors, raised slightly above the main parapet, with a narrow window on each floor. The flanking windows on the first and second floors are set within slightly recessed horizontal bands that wrap around the corners to the east and west elevations.

The west elevation features a blank side wall of the ground floor showroom extending to the left. The roof of the main office block steps down to the right in two stages, each with slightly overhanging concrete sun terraces, the right terrace occupying the space of the top floor. The recessed horizontal bands from the principal elevation continue to the left on the first and second floors, with a single narrow window to the right of the lower one. There are windows on each main floor to the right, and paired windows on the ground and first floors to the outer right. The basement has irregular openings, most of which are blocked.

On the south elevation, there is a single window on the ground and first floors in the outer left bay, with banded steel railings above on the sun roof. There are separate building projects to the right.

The east elevation is blank and otherwise similar to the west elevation. The ground floor showroom features large fixed pane windows, while the upper floors mainly have steel casements with horizontal glazing bars. The roofs are likely concrete, and there are coped wallhead stacks on the east and west elevations.

The interior of the building has a modernized ground floor showroom.

Local climate

33 East Port, Dunfermline receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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