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70 High Street, Aberdour

A Category C Listed Building in Inverkeithing and Dalgety Bay, Fife

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.0533 / 56°3'11"N

Longitude: -3.3033 / 3°18'11"W

OS Eastings: 318928

OS Northings: 685260

OS Grid: NT189852

Mapcode National: GBR 24.QMTG

Mapcode Global: WH6S5.738S

Plus Code: 9C8R3M3W+8M

Entry Name: 70 High Street, Aberdour

Listing Name: Aberdour, 70 High Street, Anvil House

Listing Date: 2 May 1973

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 334704

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB3589

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200334704

Location: Aberdour (Fife)

County: Fife

Electoral Ward: Inverkeithing and Dalgety Bay

Parish: Aberdour (Fife)

Traditional County: Fife

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Description

Early 19th century. Plain 2-storey, 3-bay rectangular-plan house with modern addition to rear. Tooled random rubble, long and short surrounds to openings, painted stone margins, long and short quoins to arises.

SE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical elevation. Centred door, flanking windows. 1st floor windows close to eaves, arranged above ground floor openings.

SW ELEVATION: inserted window to ground left.

NW ELEVATION: enlarged 1st floor window to right. Modern lean-to at ground to left.

SE ELEVATION: attached to 68 High Street.

Modern timber panelled door, letterbox fanlight. Modern top-opening timber windows. Pitched slate roof, coped ashlar skews, coped gable apex stacks; ashlar to SW, rendered to SE, circular clay cans.

INTERIOR: modernised interior.

Statement of Interest

NOTES: Anvil House was the local blacksmith's house, the old forge (disused 2002) is situated to the rear. The house is fairly large and imposing within the street denoting a certain amount of wealth and status that came from being a village blacksmith. The last blacksmith was Mr Laird who retired in the 1930s, it was at this time that the forge was converted to a workshop. There is some relation between the forge and the adjacent property to the SE, it is supposed that No 68 (see separate listing) could have been the blacksmith's original dwelling house before Anvil House was built.

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