34 Harbour Place, Burntisland is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1977.
34 Harbour Place, Burntisland
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-loft-heath
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1977
- OS grid reference
- NT 231 856
- Coordinates
- 56.05725, -3.2356
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a mid-to-late 19th-century terrace of buildings, with later alterations. It comprises an L-plan arrangement of two and three-storey structures, including a partial attic, and incorporates the gable end of a converted coach house (number 33). A prominent rounded corner feature links the taller, three-storey gabled bays on the return elevations to Harbour Place, with a moulded cornice and parapet. The exterior is predominantly coursed, droved ashlar, with squared and snecked whinstone to the rear. Stone margins, a relieving arch, cornice, and a blocking course are also visible.
The corner bay has a recessed curved facade with a window on each of the ground and first floors, topped by a tall parapet incorporating the cornice and blocking course. Number 37, situated at the corner of Forth Place, is the taller building. The Harbour Place (west) elevation features the gable end of number 33, with a modern part-glazed door and small window. Numbers 34 to 36 are slightly taller bays. Number 35 has a modern door with a letterbox fanlight and partially blocked windows. Number 36 also features a modern door and blocked windows, with a dormer-headed window breaking the eaves.
The Forth Place (south) elevation showcases a three-storey gabled bay with a fanlit door, a window, and a further fanlit door alongside a tall, segmental cart arch. A radial-astragalled oculus is set within the gablehead window, accompanied by a piended dormer window and modern roof lights. The North (South Hill Street) elevation of number 33 has a boarded door and a window.
The rear elevations are accessed via a pend adjoining the Forth Hotel and reveal a courtyard with stable and outbuilding structures belonging to the Forth Hotel forming the eastern boundary, and the former wall of South Hill Street to the north.
Original windows feature 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case formats and a 4-pane pattern in smaller casement windows on the entrance fronts, though modern glazing is present to the rear. The roof is covered in grey slates. The building has coped ashlar stacks with some cans, ashlar coped skews, cast-iron downpipes, and a decorative rainwater hopper.
Local climate
34 Harbour Place, Burntisland 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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