Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

CRAIGTOUN HOSPITALLB2644

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
20/06/1979
Local Authority
Fife
Planning Authority
Fife
Parish
Cameron
NGR
NO 48029 14412
Coordinates
348029, 714412

Description

Paul Waterhouse (Alfred Waterhouse & Son), dated 1903 at rainwater-heads. Large early Renaissance mansion with some Scottish Baronial features. Two/three storey and attic, asymmetrical composition of hammer-dressed pink sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. Small-paned windows.

Westmoreland slated roof with crested ridge tiles and clustered octagon and lozenge stacks. West entrance elevation has off-centre advanced and gabled entrance bay with round arched open porch, arcaded band and 3 slim windows above octagonal angles; one window link to gable on left with 2 windows ground floor, three at 1st and 3-light attic. Wide

5-light stone mullioned and transomed hall window bay to right with arcaded parapet and segmentally over-arched bipartite to right, 2 small windows, 2 larger windows and left-hand mullioned and transomed window above, corbelled and canted three-light oriel bay with denticulated gablet, tall shafted stack and corbelled angle turret with conical roof at attic level far right.

Dwarf walled circular forecourt with 3 panelled-pier gateways and arched gateways with wrought-iron gates and ball finials flanking house.

North frontage 2-storey attic and full basement in fall of ground. Square gabled pavilion (north end of west front) on right, large mullioned stair window of 3 mullioned and double transomed lights. Semi-octagonal stair turret corbelled to square attic stage with 2 deeply recessed windows and pyramid roof, single bay of 2-light mezzanine windows divided by pilaster strip from 4-window section (grouped 2- 2 basement and 1st) linking to advanced left-hand gable with broad shallow bow of 4 lights, 3 light attic window above; canted

bay east gable, short wing returning south, conservatory running south from it at main floor level, 6-plane roof, octagonal turret at south-east. South frontage has extensive main floor and basement level additions but has advanced ends with corbelled angle turrets flanking gabled rectangular bays of 3 lights with shafted angles and asymmetrical central frontage with 2 gables of unequal size, central one 2-window flanked by octagonal turrets.

Lions at balustrading of south terrace. Opulent interior, panelled hall, marble balustrade stair with upper arcade.

Painted coffered ceiling.

Statement of Special Interest

Formerly Mount Melville. Rebuilt for the Younger family of brewery fame. See under Mount Melville for stables etc.

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About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

Listed building records provide an indication of the special architectural or historic interest of the listed building which has been identified by its statutory address. The description and additional information provided are supplementary and have no legal weight.

These records are not definitive historical accounts or a complete description of the building(s). If part of a building is not described it does not mean it is not listed. The format of the listed building record has changed over time. Earlier records may be brief and some information will not have been recorded.

The legal part of the listing is the address/name of site which is known as the statutory address. Other than the name or address of a listed building, further details are provided for information purposes only. Historic Environment Scotland does not accept any liability for any loss or damage suffered as a consequence of inaccuracies in the information provided. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing. Even if a number or name is missing from a listing address it will still be listed. Listing covers both the exterior and the interior and any object or structure fixed to the building. Listing also applies to buildings or structures not physically attached but which are part of the curtilage (or land) of the listed building as long as they were erected before 1 July 1948.

While Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating listed buildings, the planning authority is responsible for determining what is covered by the listing, including what is listed through curtilage. However, for listed buildings designated or for listings amended from 1 October 2015, legal exclusions to the listing may apply.

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