30 Whytehouse Avenue, Kirkcaldy is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 February 1997. House. 3 related planning applications.

30 Whytehouse Avenue, Kirkcaldy

WRENN ID
heavy-obsidian-moth
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
27 February 1997
Type
House
Address
30 Whytehouse Avenue, Kirkcaldy, KY1 1UW
OS grid reference
NT 277 912
Coordinates
56.10888, -3.16295
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

30 Whytehouse Avenue in Kirkcaldy is a 2-storey, 3-bay house built in 1902, designed in an L-plan with a mansard roof and prominent curvilinear gables. The exterior is harled, featuring overhanging eaves and a square-section gutter that creates the look of a cornice. The building includes a round-headed door and dormer windows, with stone mullions.

The west elevation is symmetrical, showcasing a central bay with a projecting dwarf wall and piers that were once part of a porch. It has a corniced cantilevered canopy and a three-part French door with small pane glazing, with a dormer window above in the mansard. Each side of the central bay features broad gabled sections with canted tripartite windows and a corniced blocking course beneath the windows in the gableheads.

The south elevation, which serves as the entrance, has a round-headed canopy with a cavetto cornice over the doorway. This doorway is set deep with a part-glazed door located to the right of center. There is a tall wallhead stack positioned off-center to the right, flanked by dormer windows.

The north elevation displays a variety of openings at the ground level, with two dormer windows to the right of a wallhead stack and another dormer window to the left.

The east elevation is asymmetrical, featuring a projecting wing on the right and a horizontal stair window in the re-entrant angle on the left. The windows throughout the house have a 12-pane glazing pattern in timber sash and case style. The roof is covered with grey slates and terracotta ridge tiles, and the chimney stacks are coped and harled with terracotta cans.

Inside, the hall features a panelled dado and a timber balustered dog-leg staircase. The southwest room is notable for its fine decorative plasterwork cornicing and frieze, a timber fireplace with an overmantel, and a picture rail.

The property is enclosed by coped rubble boundary walls, with coped, square-section ashlar gatepiers and cast-iron gates.

Local climate

30 Whytehouse Avenue, 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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