75-79 High Street, Burntisland is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 March 1995. Tenement. 1 related planning application.
75-79 High Street, Burntisland
- WRENN ID
- ruined-railing-scarlet
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 31 March 1995
- Type
- Tenement
- Address
- 75-79 High Street, Burntisland, KY3 9BD
- OS grid reference
- NT 231 858
- Coordinates
- 56.05898, -3.23584
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
75-79 High Street in Burntisland is a mid to late 19th century tenement building. It has three storeys and a rectangular plan, with a shop on the ground floor and a projecting piend-roofed stair at the rear. The ground floor features painted cement render, while the upper levels are finished with stone-cleaned ashlar. The building has coursed whinstone on the north and west sides, a painted corniced band course above the ground floor, and a blocking course with a cornice at the top. The doorcase is architraved and corniced, and the windows are lugged, architraved, with bracketed cills on the second floor.
On the south elevation facing High Street, there is a shop door to the left of centre, with windows in the flanking bays that share a mutual cornice. To the outer right, there is a pend or tenement door with a plate glass fanlight above. The first and second floors have regular three-bay fenestration.
The display windows on the ground floor have plate glass glazing, while the first and second floors feature timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are ashlar coped skews with coped ashlar stacks.
Local climate
75-79 High Street, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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