The Towers, 43-47 East Quality Street, Dysart is a Grade A listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 January 1971. House. 3 related planning applications.
The Towers, 43-47 East Quality Street, Dysart
- WRENN ID
- muffled-pier-primrose
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 January 1971
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Towers, 43-47 East Quality Street, Dysart, KY1 2TW
- OS grid reference
- NT 302 932
- Coordinates
- 56.12672, -3.12303
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Towers, located at 43-47 East Quality Street in Dysart, dates back to 1589, with alterations and a forecourt wall added in the 18th century. The building underwent restoration in 1965. It is a three-storey, four-bay, L-plan tenement featuring corbelled and crowstepped elements. The exterior is harled with painted margins, and the top stage of the square stair tower is corbelled.
On the southeast elevation, there is an advanced stair tower to the right, which has small openings arranged asymmetrically and a corbelled top stage. The doorway, which is corniced and pilastered, features a panelled timber door and a multi-pane fanlight to the left. Above the door is a window with a lower timbered light and a stone apron that meets the cornice, along with a dated monogrammed panel initialled 'CL' and 'KL'. The central and left bays have recessed faces with windows on each floor, while the right side has a smaller ground floor window and a blank bay above, leading to a broad, stepped stack that breaks the eaves.
The northeast elevation shows a bay to the right with a slightly lower adjoining building beneath a broad gablehead stack, and a small window on the return to the left at the second floor. To the left, there is a recessed stair tower with a tiny window close to the corbel below the top stage.
The southwest elevation features a lower modern building adjoining at the ground and first floor, with a small window on the outer left at the second floor and a broad gablehead stack. The northwest elevation has asymmetrical fenestration with a door on the outer left.
The windows are timber sash and case with small-pane glazing patterns, and the roof is covered with grey slates. The harled stacks are coped and fitted with cans.
Inside, the interior is modern, featuring a turnpike stair with segmental-headed openings, splayed soffits, and a niche, possibly where a window has been blinded.
The forecourt wall is an ashlar-coped harled enclosure wall with rusticated quoins.
Local climate
The Towers, 43-47 East Quality Street, Dysart receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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- Radon risk assessment
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