9-11 Townsend Place, Kirkcaldy is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 September 1979. House.

9-11 Townsend Place, Kirkcaldy

WRENN ID
lost-panel-willow
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
10 September 1979
Type
House
OS grid reference
NT 279 917
Coordinates
56.11332, -3.16006
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

9-11 Townsend Place in Kirkcaldy is an early 19th-century, two-storey and basement, four-bay classical house that has been converted into flats. It is part of an irregular terrace to the west and features dressed ashlar with a harled basement. The building includes cill courses, an eaves cornice, and a blocking course. The openings are architraved, with those on the ground floor also corniced.

On the south elevation, the basement has windows in bays one and three, with flying steps and flanking dwarf walls leading up to the ground floor. Here, there is a Greek Doric-columned doorcase with a block pediment, which features a deep-set panelled timber door and a small-pane fanlight located to the left of centre. There are windows in the flanking bays, and further steps lead up to another deep-set panelled timber door with a small-pane fanlight on the outer right. The first floor has regular fenestration.

The windows are timber sash and case, with a combination of 12-pane and 6-pane upper sections over plate glass lower sections. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are coped ashlar stacks with polygonal cans and ashlar-coped skews.

The boundary walls consist of low saddleback-coped harled walls to the south and coped rubble boundary walls.

Local climate

9-11 Townsend Place, 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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