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Links View, 29 Kinghorn Road, Burntisland

A Category C Listed Building in Burntisland, Fife

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.0615 / 56°3'41"N

Longitude: -3.2289 / 3°13'43"W

OS Eastings: 323577

OS Northings: 686083

OS Grid: NT235860

Mapcode National: GBR 27.Q0K1

Mapcode Global: WH6S0.CXP2

Plus Code: 9C8R3Q6C+HF

Entry Name: Links View, 29 Kinghorn Road, Burntisland

Listing Name: 29-33 Kinghorn Road, Links View with Outbuldings, Boundary Walls

Listing Date: 31 March 1995

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 358488

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB22826

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200358488

Location: Burntisland

County: Fife

Town: Burntisland

Electoral Ward: Burntisland, Kinghorn and Western Kirkcaldy

Traditional County: Fife

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Description

Later to late 19th century. 2-storey, symmetrical 7-bay terrace of

3 houses. Polished ashlar with squared and snecked rubble and droved quoins to sides and rear, stone cills, chamfered base course, band and eaves course, chamfered arrises and stone mullions.

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: symmetrical. Slightly advanced pedimented centre bay with tripartite window to both floors, 2 deep-set fanlit doors flanking both sides, windows above, (inner door being pend entrance). Slightly advanced gabled outer bays with full height canted corniced windows; finialled gableheads.

N ELEVATION: T-projections to left and right of centre, windows and doors to both floors, giving access to outhouses at ground and raised garden.

M-gable to E.

Modern plate glass glazing throughout some with top-opening windows. Grey slates. Cavetto coped ashlar stacks with polygonal cans, ashlar coped skews and bracketted skewputts.

INTERIOR: No 33, quarter-turn staircase with decorative cast-iron balusters and wooden handrail, and top-lit with oval, radial-astragalled roof-light; elaborate cornicing and centre roses, large pilastered timber fire-surround and dado-rail at 1st floor landing.

OUTBUILDINGS, BOUNDARY WALLS AND RAILINGS: slated pitch-roofed rubble outbuildings stretching across rear of property and clasping NE corner (possibly also NW). Low saddleback-coped coursed rubble boundary wall to S, high coped rubble walls to E and W with ashlar coping and decorative cast-iron railings to N.

Statement of Interest

No 33 used to be owned by Dr Doris Wilson (daughter of local chemist) who was known locally as the 'Saint of Nazareth' where she started a women's clinic.

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