Tsb Savings Bank, 6 Kirk Wynd, Kirkcaldy is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 January 1971. Bank. 6 related planning applications.
Tsb Savings Bank, 6 Kirk Wynd, Kirkcaldy
- WRENN ID
- under-landing-tide
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 January 1971
- Type
- Bank
- Address
- Tsb Savings Bank, 6 Kirk Wynd, Kirkcaldy, KY1 1EH
- OS grid reference
- NT 280 916
- Coordinates
- 56.11197, -3.15794
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The TSB Savings Bank, located at 6 Kirk Wynd in Kirkcaldy, is a late 19th-century building that was extended around 1905. It is a two-storey, seven-bay bank building with a modern four-bay wing to the north, situated on ground that slopes down to the south. The exterior is finished in polished ashlar and features a part base course, cill and string courses, and a mutulated eaves cornice. The doorways are round-headed with keystones, while the windows are lugged and architraved, with pediments on the ground floor and segmental-headed, keystoned, and corniced windows on the first floor.
On the principal (west) elevation, there are seven symmetrical bays to the south. The central doorcase is flanked by recessed granite columns on corniced piers, which border a channelled cavetto splay and scroll consoles above a moulded panel displaying a modern 'TSB' sign. This is topped with a cavetto corniced canopy supported by balustrades and flanking piers that hold obelisks. The entrance features a deep-set panelled timber door and a semi-circular plate glass fanlight. To the left of the entrance are three windows, with the outer bays topped by triangular pediments and the centre bay by a semi-circular pediment, all above moulded windowheads with a circular motif. A cash-dispensing machine is located between the second and third bays.
The right side mirrors the left, but the outer bay has a round-headed, keystoned window that has been converted from a door. The first floor has a blank bay in the centre and three corniced windows on each side. The modern wing to the north is slightly recessed.
The windows are primarily plate glass in timber sash and case style, with modern windows in the north wing. The roof is covered with grey slates and features a coped ashlar ridge stack.
Inside, there is a timber balustered dog-leg staircase with fielded timber newels, along with a winding stair that has decorative cast-iron balusters and a timber handrail, both illuminated by circular lanterns. The banking hall has been modernized.
Local climate
Tsb Savings Bank, 6 Kirk Wynd, 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 — 6 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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