Adam Smith Heritage Centre, 1 Adam Smith Close, Kirkcaldy is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 February 1997. Heritage centre. 3 related planning applications.

Adam Smith Heritage Centre, 1 Adam Smith Close, Kirkcaldy

WRENN ID
dusted-crypt-auburn
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
27 February 1997
Type
Heritage centre
Address
Adam Smith Heritage Centre, 1 Adam Smith Close, Kirkcaldy, KY1 1HL
OS grid reference
NT 281 915
Coordinates
56.11131, -3.1563
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Adam Smith Heritage Centre, located at 1 Adam Smith Close in Kirkcaldy, is an 18th-century building that may include some earlier materials. It is a three-storey structure with a piend roof, covered in pantiles, and built from rubble with some raised ashlar surrounds and quoins.

On the south elevation, there is a slightly lower adjoining building (not included in this listing) to the left, with its ground floor obscured. To the right, there are two large windows at the first floor and four irregular openings near the roof eaves at the second floor. The east elevation, facing Adam Smith's Close, features a deep-set door to the left of centre at ground level, with a blank area above and high boundary walls of Adam Smith's Close on both the outer right and left.

The west elevation has a window in the bay to the right at the first floor and another in the centre at the second floor, with a high boundary wall on the outer left. The north elevation only shows the second floor, where four windows close to the eaves are visible, but all openings are blocked. The roof is covered with red pantiles and has later rooflights on all pitches, along with cast-iron rainwater goods.

Local climate

Adam Smith Heritage Centre, 1 Adam Smith Close, 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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