Janitor's House, 44 Milton Road, Kirkcaldy is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 January 1971. House. 2 related planning applications.

Janitor's House, 44 Milton Road, Kirkcaldy

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
28 January 1971
Type
House
Address
Janitor's House, 44 Milton Road, Kirkcaldy, KY1 1TL
OS grid reference
NT 276 908
Coordinates
56.10452, -3.1641
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Janitor's House, located at 44 Milton Road in Kirkcaldy, was designed by Sir Robert Rowand Anderson in 1876. This single-storey and attic building features a two-bay gabled design. It is constructed from rock-faced rubble with dressed ashlar quoins. Notable architectural details include a pointed-arch window, relieving arches, chamfered reveals, and stone mullions.

On the north elevation, there is a broad advanced gable to the right, which contains a modern door and a small window above it. To the right, there is a stair window, and another window is located to the left in the gablehead. A window is also present in the bay to the left.

The south elevation features a dominant, slightly advanced full-height shouldered stack, which is raised in dry-dash and located to the right of center. To the left, there is a flat-roofed extension, and above this, a pedimented stone dormer window.

The east elevation consists of a single gabled bay with a piended slate roof. It has a canted tripartite window at the ground level and a small window above it, which features a blind cusp-trefoil head in a pointed-arch opening.

The west elevation also has a single gabled bay with a window at the ground level, along with a low flat-roofed extension to the left.

The windows are timber sash and case, featuring small-pane over 2- and 4-pane glazing patterns. The roof is covered with graded grey slates, and there is a coped harled stack with cans. The building has ashlar-coped stepped skews and cast-iron downpipes with decorative fixings.

Local climate

Janitor's House, 44 Milton Road, 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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