228-232 High Street, Kirkcaldy is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 October 1981. Commercial.
228-232 High Street, Kirkcaldy
- WRENN ID
- quartered-tower-torch
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 October 1981
- Type
- Commercial
- Address
- 228-232 High Street, Kirkcaldy, KY1 1JT
- OS grid reference
- NT 281 916
- Coordinates
- 56.11183, -3.15699
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
228-232 High Street in Kirkcaldy is an early 19th-century, three-storey tenement building with an attic and five bays, featuring a shop on the ground floor. The structure is made of sandstone and granite, with stone cills and harled walls that have painted margins at the rear. It has a cornice on the first floor and an eaves course.
The northern elevation facing High Street has a granite shop front on the ground floor, which includes a small display window in the center and large display windows flanking it, with the right side featuring an in-canted center door. There are five windows on both the first and second floors, and slate-hung dormer windows on the outer right and left sides above.
The southern elevation has its ground and first floors largely hidden by later extensions. There are windows in the bays to the right and left on the first floor, piended dormer windows above, and an off-center right piended stair tower with windows on the first and second floors, plus another window breaking the eaves above.
The building features a 12- and 16-pane glazing pattern in timber sash and case windows, with grey slates on the roof. It has ashlar coped skews and coped ashlar stacks with cans, as well as cast-iron downpipes and a decorative rainwater hopper.
Local climate
228-232 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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