78 Lady Nairn Avenue, Kirkcaldy is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 March 1998. Former coach house. 2 related planning applications.
78 Lady Nairn Avenue, Kirkcaldy
- WRENN ID
- north-lime-snow
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1998
- Type
- Former coach house
- Address
- 78 Lady Nairn Avenue, Kirkcaldy, KY1 2AT
- OS grid reference
- NT 297 929
- Coordinates
- 56.12411, -3.13136
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
78 Lady Nairn Avenue in Kirkcaldy is a former coach house designed by David Forbes Smith in 1901. This two-storey building features three bays and twin gables, constructed from coursed rubble with stugged ashlar dressings.
The north elevation has a central gable with an arch and a timber door to the right, and another timber door to the left. Above, there are two windows and a gablehead stack. To the right, there is a link with a window on the first floor, a door to the right, and a bipartite window to the left, along with two more windows on the first floor and another gablehead stack. The outer left side has a piended bay with a wide opening at the ground level.
The south elevation displays asymmetrical fenestration, featuring a cart arch and a canted oriel window on the first floor to the right. The building has small-pane over plate glass lower glazing patterns in timber sash and case windows. It is topped with grey slates, and the chimneys are made of coped ashlar with cans, while the stepped skews are ashlar-coped with moulded skewputts.
Local climate
78 Lady Nairn Avenue, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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