49 And 51 Townsend Place, Kirkcaldy is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 January 1971. Tenement house. 1 related planning application.
49 And 51 Townsend Place, Kirkcaldy
- WRENN ID
- sombre-balcony-ochre
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 January 1971
- Type
- Tenement house
- Address
- 49 And 51 Townsend Place, Kirkcaldy, KY1 1HB
- OS grid reference
- NT 281 918
- Coordinates
- 56.11436, -3.15668
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
49 and 51 Townsend Place in Kirkcaldy is an earlier 19th-century small tenement that was altered at the ground level in the later 19th century. It is a two-storey, two-bay building that adjoins No 47 to the west. The exterior features dry-dash with raised stone margins, along with base and eaves courses and stone mullions.
On the south elevation, there is a pitch-roofed, bracketed timber porch adorned with pendant finials and a decorative cast-iron finial. The porch includes a two-leaf panelled timber door located in the bay to the right, while to the left, there is a canted tripartite dormer window. The outer right side has a pend entrance with a timber door and a blocked fanlight.
The first floor has two windows, and there are two 19th-century rooflights above. The timber sash and case windows feature a 12-pane glazing pattern. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are coped ashlar stacks topped with a full set of polygonal cans.
Local climate
49 And 51 Townsend Place, 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 — 1 application
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