Loughborough Road Sinclairtown Library And Clinic, Kirkcaldy is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 March 1998. Library, clinic. 4 related planning applications.
Loughborough Road Sinclairtown Library And Clinic, Kirkcaldy
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- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1998
- Type
- Library, clinic
- Address
- Loughborough Road Sinclairtown Library And Clinic, Kirkcaldy, KY1 3DB
- OS grid reference
- NT 294 930
- Coordinates
- 56.12498, -3.13575
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Loughborough Road Sinclairtown Library and Clinic in Kirkcaldy was designed by William Williamson & Hubbard and built between 1933 and 1935. This two-storey, seven-bay building features a rectangular plan and is designed in the Wrenaissance style. The exterior is made of polished ashlar with broad channelled quoins and doorcases, while the sides are harled with cement margins. It has a deep moulded base, band courses, and an eaves cornice with a lead blocking course, topped by a piend and platform roof. The northern elevation is symmetrical, with flanking screen walls.
In bays two and six, there are round-headed, keystoned doorcases with concave flanks and a blocking course, leading to a two-leaf panelled timber door and a decorative astragalled fanlight. The other bays feature windows, and the first floor has regular fenestration, with the central bay above a moulded panel displaying the Kirkcaldy coat-of-arms.
The eastern and western elevations also have five-bay regular fenestration on the first floor. The windows are timber with small-pane glazing patterns. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers. Inside, the library and clinic have a simple decorative scheme.
Local climate
Loughborough Road Sinclairtown Library And Clinic, 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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- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
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