4 King Edward Street, Markinch is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 March 1996. 1 related planning application.
4 King Edward Street, Markinch
- WRENN ID
- still-brass-pigeon
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Glenrothes and Mid Fife MP: Richard Baker (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 1 March 1996
- Address
- 4 King Edward Street, Markinch, KY7 6AN
- OS grid reference
- NO 297 013
- Coordinates
- 56.19991, -3.13438
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
2 King Edward Street in Markinch is a pair of semi-detached houses built in the earlier to mid-20th century. They are single storey with an attic and feature three bays, designed symmetrically around a central point. The exterior is constructed from dressed, squared, and snecked rubble, with polished ashlar quoins and a base course.
The south elevation, which serves as the entrance, has a symmetrical design with two roll-moulded, round-headed doorcases at the center. Each doorcase contains a panelled timber door and a semicircular plate glass fanlight above. Above these, there are two windows set within a prominent gablehead. The bays on either side of the entrance feature slate-roofed canted windows.
On the east elevation, there is a moulded stone tablet carved with the name "Victoria Villa" positioned above ground floor height to the left, along with two windows at the gablehead. The west elevation also includes two windows at the gablehead.
The windows are timber sash and case, featuring a 6- and 8-pane glazing pattern in the upper sashes and 2-pane lower sashes. The roof is covered with grey slates and has a terracotta ridge. The chimneys are cavetto coped ashlar stacks with cans, complemented by plain bargeboarding and overhanging eaves.
Surrounding the property are low saddleback-coped rubble boundary walls.
Local climate
4 King Edward Street, Markinch receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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