Viewforth House, 2 North Overgate, Kinghorn is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 September 1979. House. 1 related planning application.

Viewforth House, 2 North Overgate, Kinghorn

WRENN ID
night-chimney-ivy
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
10 September 1979
Type
House
Address
Viewforth House, 2 North Overgate, Kinghorn, KY3 9XJ
OS grid reference
NT 270 872
Coordinates
56.07206, -3.17379
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Viewforth House, located at 2 North Overgate in Kinghorn, is an 18th-century building that was altered in the 19th century. It is a two-storey house with a basement, featuring a rectangular plan and three bays, situated in an irregular terrace on sloping ground towards the southeast. The exterior is rendered with painted margins.

The southwest elevation, which is the principal facade, is symmetrical. It has two small square windows in the basement to the right of the center. The central bay at ground level has two steps leading up to a deep-set panelled timber door topped with a tall two-pane fanlight. There are windows in the flanking bays, and the first floor has regular fenestration.

On the northeast elevation, there are windows on each floor in the left bay and an off-centre right bay at the first floor. An ancillary building to the right obscures further details. Traditional pantiled dormer windows project over the off-centre right and left bays, with a small modern rooflight to the right.

The windows are timber sash and case with a 12-pane glazing pattern. The roof is covered with pantiles and features a slate easing course at the eaves. The building has coped ashlar stacks with thackstanes and cans, as well as ashlar-coped skews.

Local climate

Viewforth House, 2 North Overgate, Kinghorn 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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