87 Loughborough Road, Kirkcaldy is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 March 1998. Villa.
87 Loughborough Road, Kirkcaldy
- WRENN ID
- eastward-latch-thunder
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1998
- Type
- Villa
- OS grid reference
- NT 296 931
- Coordinates
- 56.12608, -3.13271
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
87 Loughborough Road is a late 19th-century villa that stands two stories tall with an attic and features three bays. The building is constructed from stugged, squared, and snecked rubble, with coursed rubble on the sides and rear, and dressed ashlar quoins and margins. It has base and eaves courses, stone mullions, and chamfered arrises.
The south elevation is symmetrical, showcasing a central bay with steps and flanking dwarf walls leading to a portico supported by pink polished granite columns and topped with a pedimented entablature. The entrance features a recessed panelled timber door with a plate glass fanlight and coloured glass windows on either side, along with a window on the first floor. The advanced flanking gabled bays have a moulded blocking course above canted windows on each floor, with keystoned oval finials adorned with scroll-flanked gableheads.
The north elevation displays asymmetrical fenestration, including a broad tripartite stair window at the center and a window to the right at ground level. The west elevation has two windows on the left at each floor and a shouldered wallhead stack on the right.
The stair window and vestibule windows feature coloured, leaded glazing, while the other top-opening timber windows have plate glass. The roof is covered with grey slates and decorative terracotta ridge tiles. The chimney stacks are coped with ashlar, featuring ashlar-coped skews, moulded skewputts, and stone finials.
Inside, the villa boasts decorative plasterwork cornicing and ceilings. The hall includes a screen door with etched glass, Ionic columns and pilasters, a panelled dado, and a corner fireplace with a timber overmantel. The staircase features a scale-and-platt design with timber balusters. The southwest room has a timber arcade forming an 'inglenook' with a timber fireplace and a port cupboard. The tripartite stair window and vestibule windows are adorned with Art Nouveau style coloured glass.
The boundary walls are saddleback-coped with inset decorative cast-iron railings to the south, while other areas feature coped rubble walls.
Local climate
87 Loughborough 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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