Description

Dated 1854. Tall 2-storey and attic, 4-bay Tudor Jacobean villa with curvilinear gables and steeply-pedimented dormer windows. Narrow stugged ashlar bands with dressed quoins, and dressed squared and snecked rubble. Deep base course and eaves cornice. Corbels; strapwork pediments; hoodmoulds; stylised crenellated windowheads; stone mullions; roll-moulded doorway, chamfered and concave-moulded arrises.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: curvilinear pediment with family crest on tympanum to deeply-moulded shouldered doorcase with panelled timber door and deep plate glass fanlight in bay to left of centre at ground, 2 bipartite windows to right below continuous hoodmould, and 3 hoodmoulded windows to 1st floor, steeply pedimented stone-finialled dormer windows breaking eaves above. Advanced broad curvilinear gable to outer left with crenellated windowhead to projecting tripartite window at ground, hoodmoulded bipartite window above and strapwork-pedimented single window in gablehead.

E (TERRACE) ELEVATION: broad projecting curvilinear gable to outer left with 4-light canted window at ground and raised centre hoodmould forming corbel to small 4-light canted window at 1st floor giving way to ball-finialled crenellated parapet and strapwork-pedimented window in gablehead. Recessed centre bays with stone-balustraded terrace, 2-leaf glazed door (6-pane glazing pattern) to right and window to left, both hoodmoulded; 2 windows to 1st floor breaking eaves into finialled, pedimented dormerheads each with arrowslit to tympanum. Narrower curvilinear bay to outer right with hoodmoulded window to right at ground, and further window in gablehead below raised datestone.

W ELEVATION: broad bay to right of centre with canted 3-light window as S elevation, 2 hoodmoulded windows to 1st floor and 2 dormer windows also as S. 2 slightly lower bays to left with bipartite window to right and single window to left at ground, and 2 dormerheaded windows above; bay to outer left with window at ground giving way to oriel window at 1st floor and dormer window breaking eaves above. 3 small windows to single storey office wing at outer left.

N ELEVATION: variety of elements including slightly advanced outer gables, that to left with corbelled gablehead stack, and projecting single storey office wings forming small courtyard.

4-, 8-, 12- and plate glass glazing patterns in timber sash and case windows. Grey slates. Broad banded and coped ridge and gablehead stacks with some cans; ashlar coped skews with moulded skewputts; cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers.

INTERIOR: some decorative plasterwork cornicing. Tiled hall with screen door; marble fireplace to dining room; scale-and-platt staircase with cast-iron balusters and timber handrail.

GATEPIERS: polygonal ashlar gatepiers with pointed-arch niche detail to S face and conical-coping.

Statement of Interest

Built for John Drysdale former Provost of Kirkcaldy, Kilrie is still in the Drysdale family. During the owner's absence the foundations were erroneously laid leaving the terrace elevation to the east instead of south. Kilrie Lodge, Walled Garden and Dovecot, listed separately.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17804265

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