439 High Street, Kirkcaldy is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 January 1971. House. 1 related planning application.

439 High Street, Kirkcaldy

WRENN ID
under-cornice-rye
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
28 January 1971
Type
House
Address
439 High Street, Kirkcaldy, KY1 2SN
OS grid reference
NT 284 920
Coordinates
56.11559, -3.15265
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

439 High Street in Kirkcaldy is a late 18th century house with 19th century alterations. It is a 2-storey building with an attic and features three bays, along with a chimney gablet. The exterior is finished in dry-dash with painted margins.

The south elevation facing High Street is symmetrical, featuring a panelled timber door at the center, flanked by windows in the outer bays. The first floor has regular windows, with a smaller window above in the chimney gablet and flanking 19th century rooflights. The wallhead was raised in the 19th century.

The north elevation displays a variety of architectural elements, including a projecting round stair tower at the center, a piended dormer window to the right, and a low 2-storey extension on the outer right. The timber sash and case windows have a 4-pane glazing pattern, and the building has ashlar coped skews and coped harled stacks with clay cans.

Inside, there is a stone flagged hall featuring a half-turned newel staircase with barley-twist cast-iron balusters and a timber handrail, along with a boarded dado. The first-floor room has an acanthus cornice.

Local climate

439 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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