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Antique Shop, 13-15 Commercial Street, Markinch

A Category C Listed Building in Markinch, Fife

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.2043 / 56°12'15"N

Longitude: -3.1357 / 3°8'8"W

OS Eastings: 329642

OS Northings: 701875

OS Grid: NO296018

Mapcode National: GBR 2B.F3HW

Mapcode Global: WH6RG.TB02

Plus Code: 9C8R6V37+PP

Entry Name: Antique Shop, 13-15 Commercial Street, Markinch

Listing Name: 15 Commercial Street and Antique Shop with Outbuilding and Boundary Wall

Listing Date: 1 March 1996

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 389250

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB42944

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200389250

Location: Markinch

County: Fife

Town: Markinch

Electoral Ward: Glenrothes North, Leslie and Markinch

Traditional County: Fife

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Description

Dated 1902. 2-storey, 3-bay, rectangular plan house with shop at ground left, conservatory extension to rear. Stugged ashlar and harl with long and short quoins. Base course, 1st floor cill course and eaves course. Roll-moulded surrounds, segmental-headed windows, round-headed door with keystone, stone mullions.

E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: deep-set panelled timber door with semicircular plate glass fanlight at centre, border-glazed stair window close above with carved scrollwork panel above windowhead dated 1902. Bipartite window in bay to right of centre at both floors. Traditional timber shop front to left of centre; part-glazed timber door with plate glass fanlight to outer left in deeply inset entrance with splayed display window to right and rendered apron, boarded timber pelmet with scalloped edge at windowhead: flanking pilasters with scroll and floreate capitals and corniced frieze. Further bipartite window at 1st floor.

S ELEVATION: window to outer right and left at 1st floor.

W ELEVATION: modern conservatory extension on breeze block base across most of ground floor, irregular fenestration at 1st floor.

N ELEVATION: blank.

Timber stair window with etched glass and coloured margins; plate glass glazing in timber sash and case windows to rear at ground and basement and at 1st floor centre; plate glass glazing in aluminium windows elsewhere. Grey slates. Coped ashlar with full complement of cans; decorative bargeboarding and square section gutters.

OUTBUILDING: converted former stable and gig house. Harled building with gambrel-jerkinhead roof and decorative finialled, louvred air vent at centre of ridge.

E ELEVATION: 2 traditional boarded timber sliding garage doors to right and timber door with 2-leaf glazed fanlight to outer left; 2 small rooflights.

S ELEVATION: window at ground and hayloft door above.

BOUNDARY WALL: semicircular coped rubble boundary wall.

Statement of Interest

Originally trading as a butcher?s shop, the building was erected by the Bruntons of Barnslee whose name was given to the United Free Church and Manse in the High Street.

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