38 High Street, Dunfermline is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 July 1985. Commercial building. 3 related planning applications.
38 High Street, Dunfermline
- WRENN ID
- empty-pewter-fen
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Dunfermline and Dollar MP: Graeme Downie (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 July 1985
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- 38 High Street, Dunfermline, KY12 7DD
- OS grid reference
- NT 090 874
- Coordinates
- 56.0714, -3.46261
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
38 High Street in Dunfermline is a commercial building designed by Baird and Thomson of Glasgow in 1902 for Clydesdale Bank. It is a three-storey structure with an attic and features four bays. The design is a symmetrical free Renaissance style, characterized by pedimented windows on the first floor and dormers. The principal elevation is made of polished sandstone ashlar.
The building has a base course and band courses that connect the window cills at each level. There are additional band courses near the lintels, which create friezes on the ground and second floors, with roundel panels above the windows on the second floor. A moulded cornice is located above the ground floor, and there is a modillioned eaves cornice at the roofline. The windows on each floor are architraved; those on the ground floor have Gibbs surrounds, while the first-floor windows are aediculed with pediments supported by consoled brackets. The dormers are also pedimented.
On the principal (south) elevation, there is an aediculed entrance on the outer right, featuring Corinthian pilasters and a pediment on consoled brackets adorned with acanthus motifs. The entrance includes moulded reveals and a 16-panel, two-leaf timber door with a rectangular fanlight. The fenestration is regular, with a window in each bay on the left and in each bay on the upper storeys.
The windows are mainly two-panel timber sash and case, with multi-pane dormers. The roof is covered with grey slate, and there are coursed sandstone gablehead stacks with moulded coping on either side, featuring round and octagonal cans. The interior was not inspected in 1998.
Local climate
38 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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