50 Bennochy Road, Kirkcaldy is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 June 1992. Villa.

50 Bennochy Road, 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
29 June 1992
Type
Villa
Address
50 Bennochy Road, Kirkcaldy, KY2 5RB
OS grid reference
NT 271 922
Coordinates
56.11783, -3.17362
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

50 Bennochy Road in Kirkcaldy is a two-storey and attic villa built around 1890, featuring an asymmetrical design with mock half-timbering and Queen Anne architectural details. The exterior is constructed from grey stugged and snecked sandstone, accented with polished ashlar dressings and margins. The villa has mullioned and transomed windows and a steeply-pitched roof.

On the south elevation, the building has a two-bay layout with a broad gabled projection on the left. This section includes a four-light mullioned and transomed window on the ground floor and a seven-light rectangular timber oriel window that projects outward on paired timber brackets above it. The gablehead is half-timbered and jetties out further, featuring a canted oriel with an arched center light and diagonal half-timbering at the apex, complemented by plain bargeboards. To the right, there is a single broad bay that is set back, containing a canted and parapetted four-light window on the ground floor and a three-light mullioned and transomed window on the first floor that breaks the eaves. Above this, a large dormer features a tall five-light multi-paned window with a steeply-pitched half-timbered gablehead and a timber balustraded balcony below.

The east elevation, which serves as the entrance, has a central bay with a projecting single-storey porch. This porch has a masonry base course, timbered and glazed upper sections, and a slated piend roof with overhanging eaves. A six-panelled door is set beneath a broken Jacobethan-style pediment on the left, with a single window above it on the first floor and paired bargeboarded half-timbered gablets at the ends of the M-gableheaded roof above. A broad stack is located to the outer right, with a single-storey wing extending beyond.

The north elevation displays asymmetrical fenestration, including a canted window next to the single-storey wing at ground level and a large window above it.

The villa features plate glass and multi-paned casement glazing in its timber windows. The roof is covered with grey slates and red ridge tiles, while the chimneys are made of coped squared rubble with cans. Decorative cast-iron downpipes with rainwater hoppers are also present.

The interior was not seen in 1997. The property is enclosed by semicircular-coped squared rubble boundary walls.

Local climate

50 Bennochy 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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