170 High Street, Kirkcaldy is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 October 1981. Tenement.
170 High Street, Kirkcaldy
- WRENN ID
- hollow-flue-dust
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 October 1981
- Type
- Tenement
- Address
- 170 High Street, Kirkcaldy, KY1 1JW
- OS grid reference
- NT 280 915
- Coordinates
- 56.11087, -3.15797
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
170 High Street in Kirkcaldy is a three-storey tenement building with an attic, dating from around 1820 and altered at the ground level on the north side. The building features a polished and dressed ashlar facade with a base course, a dividing course at the first floor, a cill course at the second floor, and an eaves cornice with a blocking course. The northern elevation, facing High Street, has a modern shop front with a wide door to the right and a display window to the left at ground level. Above, there are two windows on each floor and a timber dormer window to the left.
The eastern elevation, facing Tolbooth Street, presents a three-bay gable end with an additional two-bay wing to the south. The ground floor on the right features an Ionic column in antis with a cornice above, a small window off-centre to the left, and another window in the left bay. Each floor above has three windows, and there is a broad gablehead stack. The southern wing has three windows at ground level, a bipartite window to the left of centre, and another window to the right on each floor above. All ground floor openings in this section are blocked. The timber sash and case windows display 12- and 16-pane glazing patterns, while the wing has modern glazing.
Local climate
170 High 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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