3 East Fergus Place, Kirkcaldy is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 February 1997. House, office.

3 East Fergus Place, Kirkcaldy

WRENN ID
rough-paling-lichen
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
27 February 1997
Type
House, office
Address
3 East Fergus Place, Kirkcaldy, KY1 1JU
OS grid reference
NT 277 913
Coordinates
56.10962, -3.16398
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

3 East Fergus Place in Kirkcaldy is a later 19th century, two-storey classical house that was extended to the south and converted into offices in 1974. The building features ashlar stone with coursed rubble and polished ashlar dressings, a deep base course, and a cavetto eaves cornice. The windows are lugged and architraved with stone mullions.

The east elevation, or principal elevation, has a block-pedimented doorcase with fluted Doric columns and a deep-set panelled timber door with a plate glass fanlight located in a bay to the right of centre, with a window above it. There is a slightly advanced bay on the outer right with a bipartite window on each floor, and a canted tripartite window to the left, also on each floor. Each bay is corniced over the ground floor and features a mutule cornice and stepped pediment over the first floor. There are two regular later bays beyond to the left.

The south elevation is largely blank, with a window at the centre of the first floor. The windows throughout the building have 4-pane and plate glass glazing patterns in timber sash and case frames. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are cavetto-coped ashlar stacks. Decorative cast-iron downpipes with rainwater hoppers are also present.

Inside, the building features decorative cornices and a dado rail. There is a screen door leading to the vestibule, a dog-leg staircase with decorative cast-iron balusters and a timber handrail, and a square landing with a bracketed round-arched opening and two circular lanterns.

An outbuilding, possibly a converted stable or gig house, is attached to the north elevation. This rubble outbuilding has ashlar quoins and raised margins, with a corbelled window, which may have been a former hayloft opening, breaking the eaves at the centre.

The boundary walls consist of low ashlar-coped rubble walls to the east and coped rubble walls elsewhere.

Local climate

3 East Fergus 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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