38 North Overgate, Kinghorn is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 November 1972. House. 1 related planning application.

38 North Overgate, Kinghorn

WRENN ID
dim-finial-elm
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
24 November 1972
Type
House
Address
38 North Overgate, Kinghorn, KY3 9XJ
OS grid reference
NT 269 872
Coordinates
56.07286, -3.17486
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

38 North Overgate in Kinghorn is an 18th-century, two-storey, three-bay house located at the end of a terrace on a corner site. The exterior is harled with painted margins.

On the southwest elevation, there is a blank wall of the forestair at the center of the ground floor. To the right of this, there is a modern timber door with an adjacent window, and to the left, there is another window. The first floor features a timber door at the center flanked by windows, all of which are positioned just below the eaves.

The northwest elevation, facing Eastgate, has a gabled design with a window close to the ground on the outer left side.

The house features plate glass glazing in pivot windows and has a swept, pantiled roof. The chimneys are coped and harled, topped with thackstanes.

Local climate

38 North Overgate, Kinghorn 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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