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
BALBIRNIE STREET AND COMMERCIAL STREET, ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND WITH BOUNDARY WALLSLB42935
Status: Designated
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Summary
- Category
- C
- Date Added
- 01/03/1996
- Local Authority
- Fife
- Planning Authority
- Fife
- Burgh
- Markinch
- NGR
- NO 29646 01814
- Coordinates
- 329646, 701814
Description
Late 19th century, altered at ground and incorporating earlier fabric(?). 2-storey with attic, 3-bay, T-plan house converted to bank premises with dwelling above; on corner site and in irregular terrace to W. Dressed rubble, squared and snecked rubble and droved ashlar with stone cills, ground floor cornice with modern fascia board and eaves course. Architraved and keystoned doorcase, chamfered and stop-chamfered arrises.
S ELEVATION: symmetrical. 3 large windows at ground with curvilinear horizontal astragals, centre window stop-chamfered and altered to automatic cash dispenser; 3 regular windows at 1st floor and bipartite metal-clad timber dormers over outer bays.
E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 2-leaf timber door in projecting, round-cornered ashlar doorcase to left with Gibbsian surround and consoled cornice; lead-roofed canted and corniced window above and further window to outer right at ground.
N ELEVATION: slightly lower T-projection at centre with window to right at ground, stair window at centre and flanking 1st floor windows, flat-roofed dormer window above; timber door in moulded and corniced doorway on return to left, window beyond to left at both floors; window to both floors on recessed face to left.
2-, 4- and 12-pane glazing pattern and 6-pane upper with 2-pane lower sashes to dormers, all in timber sash and case windows; plate glass glazing in timber windows to ground S (bank). Graded grey slates. Coped ashlar gablehead stacks with full complement of polygonal cans and ashlar coped skews; bargeboarding and timber spike finials. Profiled eaves gutter.
INTERIOR: keystoned arch.
BOUNDARY WALL: low saddleback-coped ashlar and tall semicircular-coped rubble boundary walls.
Statement of Special Interest
An old photograph (probably earlier 20th century) shows the building before bank conversion with full-height canted window to E (now doorway) and centre door to S.
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