174-176 High Street, Kirkcaldy is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 February 1997. Tenement, shop. 4 related planning applications.
174-176 High Street, Kirkcaldy
- WRENN ID
- dim-crypt-peregrine
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 27 February 1997
- Type
- Tenement, shop
- Address
- 174-176 High Street, Kirkcaldy, KY1 1JW
- OS grid reference
- NT 280 915
- Coordinates
- 56.11102, -3.15799
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
174-176 High Street in Kirkcaldy is a mid to later 19th century, three-storey, two-bay tenement with a piend roof, situated on a corner site and featuring a shop at ground level. The building is constructed of ashlar stone, which is painted at the ground floor, and includes an eaves cornice. The windows are pedimented and corniced, with raised lugged margins and stop-chamfered arrises.
On the north elevation facing High Street, there is a modern shop front that is not in keeping with the building's character, featuring a deep fascia at ground level. The first floor has two pedimented bipartite windows, while the second floor contains two additional windows.
The west elevation facing Tolbooth Street is largely blank at ground level, with a door on the outer right and a small display window to the left. The first floor features a bipartite window to the left of centre, a window in the bay to the right, and a narrower window adjacent to the outer right, all of which are corniced. The second floor has a window to the left of centre and windows to the right, similar to the first floor.
The second floor mainly has a six-pane glazing pattern, while the first floor has two-pane glazing over plate glass lower sashes, all in timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there is a cavetto coped and shouldered wallhead ashlar stack with some cans on the west side.
Local climate
174-176 High Street, 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 — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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