Royal Bank Of Scotland, 191 High Street, Kirkcaldy is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 January 1971. Bank building. 1 related planning application.
Royal Bank Of Scotland, 191 High Street, Kirkcaldy
- WRENN ID
- late-groin-furze
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 January 1971
- Type
- Bank building
- Address
- Royal Bank Of Scotland, 191 High Street, Kirkcaldy, KY1 1JA
- OS grid reference
- NT 280 915
- Coordinates
- 56.11125, -3.1584
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Royal Bank of Scotland, located at 191 High Street in Kirkcaldy, was designed by Thomas Hamilton and completed in 1825. This three-storey, four-bay classical bank building features a platform roof and is constructed from polished ashlar with squared and coursed rubble. Notable architectural details include a base course, a cornice at the ground floor, a balustrade, a cill course on the second floor, and an eaves cornice with a balustrade. The first-floor windows are corniced and architraved, while the ground floor has panelled aprons.
On the south elevation facing High Street, there is a slightly advanced doorcase with a pair of panelled timber doors and a small-pane fanlight located in the outer left bay. This is mirrored by a similar columned surround that has been altered to a window at the outer right. The inner bays contain windows, although all ground floor windows are currently boarded up. Each floor above has four windows, with those on the second floor being smaller. The timber sash and case windows feature a 12-pane glazing pattern. The building is topped with paired lozenge and polygonal, coped ashlar stacks with cans.
The interior was not seen during the inspection in 1996.
Local climate
Royal Bank Of Scotland, 191 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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