39 And 41 Townsend Place, Kirkcaldy is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 February 1997. 3 related planning applications.

39 And 41 Townsend Place, Kirkcaldy

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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
27 February 1997
Address
39 And 41 Townsend Place, Kirkcaldy, KY1 1HB
OS grid reference
NT 281 918
Coordinates
56.11422, -3.15724
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

35 and 37 Townsend Place in Kirkcaldy are a pair of later 19th-century, two-storey and attic houses that have been converted into flats, with numbers 39 and 41 having been altered. The buildings are constructed from squared and snecked rubble with ashlar dressings, featuring base and eaves courses, architraved surrounds, and corniced doors. Stone mullions are present on Nos 39 and 41.

The south elevation is symmetrical, with Nos 35 and 37 on the left featuring a deep-set panelled timber door and a small-pane fanlight at the center, flanked by windows and regular fenestration on the first floor. Nos 39 and 41 on the right have a similar design but include bipartite windows in the outer bays and a piended timber and slate dormer window above the left bay.

On the north elevation, Nos 35 and 37 include a catslide-roof circular stair tower with a window on the first floor and additional windows in the flanking bays. Nos 39 and 41 have a harled, lower two-storey, pitch-roofed extension.

The windows are timber sash and case with various glazing patterns, including 4-pane, 12-pane, and plate glass. The roofs are covered with grey slates, and there are coped ashlar mutual and wallhead stacks with a full set of polygonal cans.

The boundary walls include low saddleback-coped walls to the south and coped rubble walls elsewhere.

Local climate

39 And 41 Townsend Place, 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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