Glasgow Bank, 135 High Street, Kirkcaldy is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 January 1971. 1 related planning application.

Glasgow Bank, 135 High Street, Kirkcaldy

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
28 January 1971
Address
Glasgow Bank, 135 High Street, Kirkcaldy, KY1 1LR
OS grid reference
NT 280 914
Coordinates
56.11016, -3.1593
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Glasgow Bank, located at 133 High Street in Kirkcaldy, dates from around 1835 and is a three-storey, four-bay classical former bank. The building features polished ashlar stonework, with a channelled design at the ground level. It has a band course at the ground floor, a cill course at the second floor, and a balustraded eaves cornice with dentils. The windows are architraved, with those on the first floor having lugged frames, while the outer bays are adorned with canopies supported by flat consoles and apron panels.

On the south elevation facing High Street, the design is symmetrical. The ground floor has been modernized with a shopfront that includes a three-part display window on the left and a display window with a deep-set glazed door on the right, flanked by piers and a deep granite fascia between the outer piers. The first and second floors maintain regular fenestration, with the outer bays slightly advanced and an open balustrade above.

The north elevation facing Hill Street consists of three bays. It features steps leading up to a porch with a slated canopy, a modern door in the center, a window in the right bay, and a blocked window in the left bay. There is a window in each bay above, with the left of center window positioned slightly lower. The roof is twin piended with a wallhead stack on the left.

The rear of the building has a 12-pane glazing pattern on the first and second floors to the left, with plate glass glazing elsewhere. All windows are timber sash and case, except for those at the rear which are casement windows. The ground front has fixed display windows, and the roof is covered with grey slates. The building features cavetto coped ashlar stacks with cans.

The boundary walls are made of rubble and are topped with ashlar coping.

Local climate

Glasgow Bank, 135 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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