Listed Building

The only legal part of the listing under the Planning (Listing Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 is the address/name of site. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing – see 'About Listed Buildings' below for more information. The further details below the 'Address/Name of Site' are provided for information purposes only.

Address/Name of Site

KINGLASSIE, MAIN STREET, MINERS WELFARE INSTITUTE WITH BOUNDARY WALLSLB43667

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
C
Date Added
04/10/1996
Local Authority
Fife
Planning Authority
Fife
Parish
Kinglassie
NGR
NT 23148 98775
Coordinates
323148, 698775

Description

1931 with minor later additions. Single storey, 7-bay colonial style pavilion with swept roofs and prominent pagoda style ventilator to ridge. Painted harl with brick base course, eaves course, round-headed openings to W and N, concrete mullions.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: (originally symmetrical). Steps up to wide pedimented canopy with blocking course supported on 4 piers, 2-leaf timber door at centre. Swept lead roof to square ventilator with decorative wrought-iron weathervane finial at centre. Blank bays flanking centre below squat, slated, swept-roof bipartite timber dormers; window in bay to right and door to left; slightly advanced flanking gables with slated, swept-roof canted windows and mock timber beaming in gableheads; slightly set-back small flat-roofed extension with window to outer left.

W ELEVATION: variety of elements including advanced bay to left with

2 small windows and keystoned, round-headed doorway to outer left.

N ELEVATION: asymmetrical round-headed fenestration to recessed centre bays with dormer windows as S elevation, advanced bay to right and modern extensions to left.

E ELEVATION: largely blank with small modern porch.

Small-pane glazing pattern to timber dormer windows, modern glazing elsewhere. Purple slates. Brick coped, harled stacks with cans. Cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers to S; plain bargeboarding.

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

BOUNDARY WALLS: coped rubble boundary walls.

Statement of Special Interest

Kinglassie Colliery opened circa 1900 but this building is all that remains of a once thriving industry. Reinstatement of traditional glazing would further enhance this unusual and elegant building in its prominent position overlooking the Main Street.

References

Bibliography

Gifford FIFE (1992), p273.

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)

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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.

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