10 Post Office Lane, North Queensferry, Inverkeithing, Fife

Coordinates

Latitude: 56.0095 / 56°0'34"N

Longitude: -3.3936 / 3°23'36"W

OS Eastings: 313205

OS Northings: 680493

OS Grid: NT132804

Mapcode National: GBR 20.TKJG

Mapcode Global: WH6S9.V66W

Plus Code: 9C8R2J54+QH

Entry Name: 10 Post Office Lane, North Queensferry

Listing Name: North Queensferry, 10 Post Office Lane

Listing Date: 19 December 1979

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 342387

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB9990

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200342387

Location: Inverkeithing

County: Fife

Electoral Ward: Inverkeithing and Dalgety Bay

Parish: Inverkeithing

Traditional County: Fife

Tagged with: House

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Description

Dated 1776. 2-storey, 3-bay square-plan traditional house with modern 2-storey extension and conservatory to rear. Painted harling; droved stone margins.

N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical elevation. Central door, narrow fanlight above; surmounted by marriage inscription '17 I M/ M M 76'; flanked by windows. 1st floor windows to outer bays.

W ELEVATION: plain gable.

S ELEVATION: modern ground floor lean-to conservatory to left. 2-storey flat-roofed concrete extension to centre. 1st floor window to left close to eaves.

E ELEVATION: advanced gable of former attached house. Ground floor modern French door to right and elongated window to right.

4-pane timber sash and case windows to N and 1st floor to S; modern glazing elsewhere. Timber panelled and 2-pane glazed door to N. Pitched roof; pantiles; easing slates; raised ashlar coped skews; coped gablehead stacks; octagonal clay cans.

Statement of Interest

The house formerly abutting to E is now demolished. The traditional marriage inscription and pantiles add interest to an early village street plan. This house forms part of an 18th century arrangement of single and multi-storey dwellings forming large U-plan from No 4 Post Office Lane to No 1 Helen Place (formerly known as Chapel Place). Post Office Lane was formerly known as North Lane and was the main route down to the shore of St James's Bay, now mostly in-filled from quarrying.

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