56 Windmill Road, Dysart is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 March 1998. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

56 Windmill Road, Dysart

WRENN ID
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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
26 March 1998
Type
Cottage
Address
56 Windmill Road, Dysart, KY1 3AN
OS grid reference
NT 300 934
Coordinates
56.12883, -3.12764
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

56 Windmill Road in Dysart is a pair of single-storey and attic, two-bay semi-detached cottages built in 1898 by architect D Forbes Smith in the Edwardian Tudor style. The cottages feature stocky porches with Ionic columns and are constructed of ashlar with rubble on the sides and rear. They have base and eaves courses, corbelled chimney breasts, and stone transoms and mullions with chamfered arrises.

The principal elevation is symmetrical, showcasing an advanced M-gable at the center. This gable includes a 12-light canted transomed window with a cornice and blocking course. Flanking the gable are stone porches with dwarf walls and cavetto cornices, along with a 6-light transomed window beneath a gunloop in the gableheads. The outer bays are recessed and feature canted 6-light transomed windows that wrap around the outer angles, which are moulded to corbelled skewputts over the center light.

On the south elevation, a dominant chimney breast pierces the right pitch of the gable and is accompanied by a window to the left and two further windows in the gablehead. The north elevation mirrors the south elevation.

The cottages have modern glazing, red tiles, and decorative terracotta ridge tiles. The moulded, coped ashlar stacks are complemented by decorative cans, while the ashlar-coped skews feature moulded skewputts and cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers. The boundary walls consist of saddleback-coped rubble retaining walls to the east and semicircular coped rubble boundary walls.

Local climate

56 Windmill Road, Dysart receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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