8 Bennochy Avenue, Kirkcaldy is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 November 1986. Villa.
8 Bennochy Avenue, Kirkcaldy
- WRENN ID
- nether-chalk-quill
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 November 1986
- Type
- Villa
- OS grid reference
- NT 273 921
- Coordinates
- 56.11647, -3.17035
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
8 Bennochy Avenue in Kirkcaldy is a two-storey International Modern villa designed by Williamson & Hubbard, built between 1933 and 1934. The building features a harled exterior with concrete cills, a flat roof, and plain-coped parapets.
The south elevation, which is the principal façade, has two bays framed by low chimney breasts on the east and west sides. It includes windows with horizontal metal-framed glazing, consisting of three panes wide and four panes deep on the upper floor and on the right side of the ground floor. There is a rectangular projecting bay on the ground floor to the left, with a window that wraps around the left corner, featuring four panes facing south and one pane to the west.
On the west elevation, which serves as the entrance, there is a bow-ended stair projection with a long window to the left. The entrance door is located in a re-entrant angle and is topped by an octagonal light, sheltered by a cantilevered canopy. Above the door and to the right, there are single light windows.
The east elevation is relatively plain, with a window located on the ground right. The north elevation features symmetrical fenestration, including a single-storey back wing that projects to the left and a link to the garage beyond.
The villa showcases multi-pane, horizontal glazing patterns in its metal-framed windows. The chimney stacks are coped and harled, with cans, and there are cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers.
Inside, the villa has a well-preserved interior that was unaltered as of 1985, although it was not seen in 1997.
The property includes a low terrace at the front and a stepped garden wall, which is stuccoed and coped to match the house.
Local climate
8 Bennochy Avenue, 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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