151-153 High Street, Kirkcaldy is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 July 1983. Former bank, shop.
151-153 High Street, Kirkcaldy
- WRENN ID
- quartered-timber-storm
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 13 July 1983
- Type
- Former bank, shop
- Address
- 151-153 High Street, Kirkcaldy, KY1 1LR
- OS grid reference
- NT 280 914
- Coordinates
- 56.11045, -3.15928
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
151-153 High Street in Kirkcaldy is a former bank building designed by William Williamson in 1905, which underwent alterations around 1985. This three-storey, three-bay classical structure is now home to a shop on the ground floor. It features polished sandstone ashlar with channelled pilastered quoin strips, as well as mutuled cornices at both the ground floor and eaves. The windows are architraved and corniced.
The south elevation facing High Street is asymmetrical at the ground level. It includes a pedimented and keystoned doorcase with flanking pilasters and volute capitals, leading to a two-leaf glazed door with a deep, blocked fanlight located to the left of centre. To the right, there are two tall arcaded windows. The ground floor cornice serves as a plinth for giant channelled pilasters that flank each upper storey bay, supporting an entablature and an open pediment at the centre above a recessed bay. The first floor features a pedimented window in the centre with corniced windows in the flanking bays, all adorned with keystones. The second floor has three smaller windows, with the centre window displaying a consoled cornice beneath a keystoned segmental moulding within a broken pediment.
The east elevation includes a two-storey modern building that adjoins the slightly projecting central bay, which has narrow lights on the return to the left at both the first and second floors. The building has plate glass glazing in top-opening windows and fixed display windows on the ground floor. The roof is covered with grey slates and features a piend and platform design, along with coped ashlar stacks.
Local climate
151-153 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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