Burton's, 89-95 High Street, Kirkcaldy is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 February 1997. Department store. 2 related planning applications.
Burton's, 89-95 High Street, Kirkcaldy
- WRENN ID
- knotted-alcove-indigo
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 27 February 1997
- Type
- Department store
- Address
- Burton's, 89-95 High Street, Kirkcaldy, KY1 1LW
- OS grid reference
- NT 279 913
- Coordinates
- 56.10928, -3.16013
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Burton's is a 1937, three-storey Art Deco department store located at 89-95 High Street in Kirkcaldy, situated on a corner site. The building features polished ashlar and red brick, complemented by marble and render. Its design includes giant pilasters with stylised Ionic capitals that define the bays of the curtain wall on the first and second floors. The structure has a base, deep fascia courses, and an entablature topped with a deep, stepped parapet.
On the south elevation facing High Street, the building has five bays above ground. The bay to the left of the centre contains paired, deep-set glazed doors, with two display windows to the right. The bays are separated by concrete piers. Above, there are four tall windows with an additional narrow window on the outer right, each separated by pilasters, and chevron-ornamented metal aprons between the floors.
The corner elevation to the southwest features three chamfered pillars with two display windows at the ground level, a rounded fascia, and a band course above. The upper floors have three windows with dividing pilasters and paired outer pilasters, topped by the tallest step of the blocking course.
The west elevation, facing Whytecauseway, has six bays above ground. To the right of centre, there are two display windows separated by piers. The left side features a shop entrance with a marble surround, a door flanked by display windows, and an additional window beyond to the left. There is a deep-set, two-leaf panelled timber door within a marble doorway, accompanied by commemorative plinth stones to the outer left, all beneath a marble fascia band. The bays above ground mirror those of the south elevation, with a narrow window on the outer left.
On the north elevation facing Hill Street, the fenestration is asymmetrical, with five boarded timber openings on the left at ground level. The large six-pane metal frame windows on the south, southwest, and west elevations have margin glazing, while similar windows on the north elevation do not have margins.
Inside, there is a stone stair with a timber handrail and dado.
Local climate
Burton's, 89-95 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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