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Miners' Welfare Institute, 125-127 Main Street, Lochgelly

A Category B Listed Building in Lochgelly, Fife

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.1263 / 56°7'34"N

Longitude: -3.3101 / 3°18'36"W

OS Eastings: 318657

OS Northings: 693386

OS Grid: NT186933

Mapcode National: GBR 24.L09Z

Mapcode Global: WH6RS.481W

Plus Code: 9C8R4MGQ+GX

Entry Name: Miners' Welfare Institute, 125-127 Main Street, Lochgelly

Listing Name: 125-127 (Odd Nos) Main Street, Former Miners' Welfare and War Memorial Institute

Listing Date: 5 December 1993

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 382620

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB37513

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200382620

Location: Lochgelly

County: Fife

Town: Lochgelly

Electoral Ward: Lochgelly, Cardenden and Benarty

Traditional County: Fife

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Description

A D Haxton. 1923-25. 2-storey, symmetrical 7-bay Free Baroque

miners' welfare institute and war memorial. Rendered with polished sandstone dressings. Base course; cill course; bracketted cornice; parapet; keystoned architraved windows; decorative carved festoon panels to pilasters.

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: central entrance bay flanked by full-height pilasters; keystoned round-arched doorway; 2-leaf panelled door; radiating fanlight; bracketted stone balcony with iron balustrade and broken round-headed pediment to 1st floor window above; inscribed panel breaking eaves. Single windows at ground in 3 bays to left and right of centre; oculi above at 1st floor.

W ELEVATION: 3 windows at ground and 1st floor to outer right; 2-storey piend-roofed projection to centre; external stair to outer left.

E ELEVATION: 2 windows and doorway at ground; single storey wing with roof ventilator adjoining to outer right; bracketted cill to Venetian window at 1st floor.

N (REAR) ELEVATION: irregularly disposed fenestration.

Small-pane sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; ogival cap to central ventilator; stone coping; original rainwater goods including hoppers dated 1925.

INTERIOR: plain cornices; timber dado panelling; decorative mounting to clock set in timber and glass screen wall.

Low brick boundary wall with moulded stone coping to street; gatepiers and ironwork missing.

Statement of Interest

Haxton also designed the Methil Miners' Welfare (now the Community Centre).

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