1, 4 Townhead, Kinghorn is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 November 1972. Tenement.
1, 4 Townhead, Kinghorn
- WRENN ID
- odd-terrace-briar
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 24 November 1972
- Type
- Tenement
- OS grid reference
- NT 268 872
- Coordinates
- 56.0725, -3.17676
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
1 and 4 Townhead in Kinghorn is an 18th-century, two-storey small tenement with a rectangular plan and a curved forestair. The exterior is harled with chamfered arrises.
On the north elevation facing Townhead, No 7 features a modern timber door to the right of centre, with windows in the flanking bays and two small windows on the first floor. There is a door to No 9 in the bay to the right of centre, accompanied by flanking windows at ground level. The forestair, which has barleytwist cast-iron railings, leads to No 6, where there is a timber door on the first floor and two windows to the right.
The west elevation facing Barclay Road is a blank gabled wall with a high boundary wall on the left side.
On the east elevation, there is a flat-roofed garage at ground level, with a window to the left of centre in the gablehead.
No 7 retains plate glass glazing in timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with pantiles, featuring a slate easing course at the eaves. The chimneys are made of coped squared rubble with some cans, and there are thackstanes on the gablehead stacks, along with ashlar-coped skews.
The boundary walls consist of high flat-coped rubble and low dry-dashed walls.
Local climate
1, 4 Townhead, Kinghorn 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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