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Kennoway Village, Cupar Road, St Kenneth's (Church of Scotland) Parish ChurchKennoway Village, Cupar Road, St Kenneth's (Church of Scotland) Parish Church · Photo: Richard Law · CC BY-SA 2.0
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History of Kennoway · Historic Environment Scotland

16 listed buildings, 8 of them in the second category

On the Historic Environment Scotland list, all of them stand inside Kennoway’s locality, 34 for every 10,000 residents. We have photos of 5 of its listed buildings.

Listed buildings
16
34 per 10,000 residents
Category A
0
national importance
Category B
8
regional importance
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
In pictures

Kennoway in 5 photos

Tap a photo to step through them full screen.

Photos from Wikimedia Commons and Geograph, copied to our own server, each credited to its photographer with its licence; names open the building’s page or its official list entry.

The map

Where Kennoway’s history is

Every Category A and B building, monument and historic park.

Historic Environment Scotland lists buildings in three categories: Category A for buildings of national or international importance (about 7.5% of listed buildings), Category B for buildings of regional importance (about 50%), and Category C for buildings of local importance (about 43%). Listing protects the whole building, inside and out.

Every entry on Historic Environment Scotland’s designations whose point lies inside the NRS 2022 locality boundary. One list entry can cover a terrace or a group of buildings.

Category B

The 8 Category B listed buildings in Kennoway

Buildings of regional importance. 5 are photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.

Category C

8 Category C listed buildings

This category covers buildings of local importance. Open any building to read its official list entry.

All 8 Category C listed buildings, A to Z
Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 3.2% of Kennoway

Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.

Kennoway 19704 ha
4 hain conservation areas, of 129 ha inside the locality.

7 of the 16 listed buildings stand in one.

Historic Environment Scotland’s conservation areas layer, supplied by councils (incomplete in places, so a page fact, never graded). Hectares are the part of each area inside the locality.

How the list grew

More than half of Kennoway’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1973

The year each building now on the list was first listed.

1973 · 13
19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 13 entries were listed in 1973. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Kennoway

TownPeopleListedCategory AHistory
Kennoway4,665160—
Leven10,088330—
Methil10,712160—
Buckhaven4,41370—
Glenrothes37,466384—
Leslie2,888630—
Cupar8,8351794—
Kirkcaldy and Dysart51,13528410—
In brief

Kennoway in brief

Kennoway has 16 listed buildings, including Kennoway Village, Cupar Road, St Kenneth's (Church of Scotland) Parish Church. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1970. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1973: 13 of 16. The rest is about typical: like most towns its size, it has no Category A building.

Questions about Kennoway’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Kennoway?

Historic Environment Scotland lists 16 buildings inside Kennoway’s locality: 0 Category A, 8 Category B and 8 Category C.

How many conservation areas are there in Kennoway?

1, covering about 4 hectares of the town. The largest is Kennoway.

When were Kennoway’s buildings listed?

The first in 1973; the most, 13, in 1973.

Kennoway has no History Grade.

Listed buildings, scheduled monuments, gardens and designed landscapes, battlefields, conservation areas and World Heritage Sites: Historic Environment Scotland, Open Government Licence v3.0. Check an entry on Historic Environment Scotland’s portal before relying on it.

Sources: Historic Environment Scotland designations (listed buildings, scheduled monuments, gardens and designed landscapes, battlefields, World Heritage Sites), October 2026, inside the NRS 2022 locality boundary · Historic Environment Scotland conservation areas (compiled from councils; October 2026). All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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