275-277 High Street, Kirkcaldy is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 January 1971. Tenement. 2 related planning applications.

275-277 High Street, Kirkcaldy

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
28 January 1971
Type
Tenement
Address
275-277 High Street, Kirkcaldy, KY1 1JH
OS grid reference
NT 281 917
Coordinates
56.11284, -3.15636
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

275-277 High Street in Kirkcaldy is an early 19th-century tenement building that has undergone some alterations in the 20th century. It stands three stories high with an attic and features six bays, with shops located on the ground floor. The exterior is finished with ashlar, harl, and dry-dash, complemented by stone cills and quoins. The ground floor has a bracketed cornice and an eaves cornice, both adorned with mutules.

On the south elevation facing High Street, the ground floor includes a traditional shop positioned to the left of center, featuring an in-canted part-glazed door at the center and display windows on either side below a fascia. There is an ashlar pier at the center with decorative fluted brackets, and a modern shop is located to the right. The first and second floors each have six windows, while the attic is pedimented with two windows and a broad gablehead stack that breaks the eaves at the center. Piended timber dormer windows are present over the outer bays.

The north elevation has much of its detail obscured, but a central attic gablet similar to the south elevation is visible, along with a slightly lower part-crowstepped building to the north. The windows are timber sash and case with a 12-pane glazing pattern, and the shops feature fixed plate glass glazing. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are ashlar coped skews and cavetto coped ashlar stacks, some fitted with cans. Additionally, there are cast-iron downpipes and a decorative rainwater hopper on the southeast side.

Local climate

275-277 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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