Victoria Viaduct, Victoria Road, Kirkcaldy is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 March 1988. Viaduct.

Victoria Viaduct, Victoria Road, Kirkcaldy

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
22 March 1988
Type
Viaduct
OS grid reference
NT 284 925
Coordinates
56.11986, -3.15203
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Victoria Viaduct, built between 1899 and 1902 by William D Sang, is a four-arch structure that carries Victoria Road over a wide gully and burn. It features semicircular arches supported by bull-faced ashlar piers, abutments, and spandrels, with contrasting brick arch rings. The design includes a corbelled low parapet that is capped with ashlar.

Local climate

Victoria Viaduct, Victoria Road, 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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