53-55 High Street, Dunfermline is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 March 2000. Tenement block. 3 related planning applications.

53-55 High Street, Dunfermline

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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Dunfermline and Dollar MP: Graeme Downie (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
10 March 2000
Type
Tenement block
Address
53-55 High Street, Dunfermline, KY12 7DL
OS grid reference
NT 090 874
Coordinates
56.07119, -3.46234
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

53-55 High Street in Dunfermline is a late 17th to early 18th century terraced tenement block that has undergone significant alterations and additions. The building is two stories with an attic and features three bays. The principal (north) elevation has a ground floor shopfront and a crow-stepped gable on the east side. The front is made of coursed painted stone, while other sides are harled, with sandstone ashlar dressings. The windows above the ground floor are architraved, and there is a moulded cornice on the principal elevation.

On the north elevation, there is a late 20th century glazed shopfront at the ground level, with a shop entrance that includes a rectangular fanlight to the outer left. To the outer right, there is a vennel entrance with a bracketed timber fascia board above. The first floor has three evenly spaced windows, and there are two former catslide dormers above that are now blocked.

The south elevation features a later lower-height extension that spans most of the side. There is a vennel entry to the left, a small window with a slightly chamfered architrave above, and a larger window above that. The building mainly has four-pane timber sash and case windows.

Local climate

53-55 High Street, Dunfermline receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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