461 And 463 High Street, Kirkcaldy is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 February 1997. Tenement. 1 related planning application.
461 And 463 High Street, Kirkcaldy
- WRENN ID
- dusk-tallow-spring
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 27 February 1997
- Type
- Tenement
- Address
- 461 And 463 High Street, Kirkcaldy, KY1 2SN
- OS grid reference
- NT 284 920
- Coordinates
- 56.11594, -3.15216
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
461 and 463 High Street in Kirkcaldy are a pair of properties from the earlier and later 19th century that have been merged at ground level. The building is an irregular three-storey tenement with a public house on the ground floor.
No 461, from the later 19th century, features a three-bay design. The facade is made of ashlar, painted at the ground level, and random rubble with droved margins. It includes base and dividing courses, a ground floor cornice, and an eaves course. There are pilasters with block capitals on the ground and first floors, and a curved bay to the left of center. The first floor has round-headed openings.
On the south elevation facing High Street, there is a pilastered doorway with a timber door and a plate glass fanlight at the center, flanked by display windows with pilasters on the outer right and left. The first floor has regular fenestration with pilasters similar to the ground floor, a panelled dividing course above, and three additional windows on the second floor.
The west elevation facing Malcolm's Wynd has six bays above ground. It features a blocked door in the penultimate bay to the left and a blocked window to the outer right at ground level, with regular fenestration on each floor above and two tall wallhead stacks.
No 463, from the earlier 19th century, is a three-storey building with an attic and also has a three-bay design. It is harled with stone margins and has base and eaves lintel courses.
On the south elevation facing High Street, the ground floor has a two-leaf door with a plate glass fanlight at the center, with windows in the flanking bays (the lower panes are blocked) and a modern fascia above. The first and second floors each have three regular bays, with piended and slated dormer windows over the outer bays.
No 461 features a four-pane glazing pattern in timber sash and case windows, with fixed glazing at the ground level. No 463 has a 12-pane glazing pattern in timber sash and case windows, with small-pane glazing at the ground level. The roofs are covered with grey slates, and there are broad ashlar and brick stacks with cans.
The boundary walls are made of coped rubble.
Local climate
461 And 463 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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