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Royal Bank Of Scotland, 60 Main Street, Thornton

A Category C Listed Building in Markinch, Fife

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.1652 / 56°9'54"N

Longitude: -3.1455 / 3°8'43"W

OS Eastings: 328961

OS Northings: 697541

OS Grid: NT289975

Mapcode National: GBR 2B.HF9R

Mapcode Global: WH6RN.N9CH

Plus Code: 9C8R5V83+3R

Entry Name: Royal Bank Of Scotland, 60 Main Street, Thornton

Listing Name: Thornton, Main Street and Park Place No 60 and Royal Bank with Boundary Walls

Listing Date: 1 March 1996

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 389315

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB42997

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200389315

Location: Markinch

County: Fife

Electoral Ward: Glenrothes Central and Thornton

Parish: Markinch

Traditional County: Fife

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Description

Mid to later 19th century. 2 storey with attic, 3 bay bank and bank manager?s house, on corner site and in irregular terrace to S. Squared and coursed rubble and harl with ashlar dressings. Base course and deep eaves lintel course and cornice. Openings corniced at ground and stone mullions.

W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: symmetrical. Deep set, 2 leaf panelled timber door at centre in pilastered doorcase with cornice and block pediment; bipartite windows with raised aprons in flanking bays. 1st floor with large modern fascia board at centre and bipartite windows in flanking bays. Bipartite, timber dormer window above at centre.

N ELEVATION: door at centre and bipartite bank window in bay to right of centre; further window to right at 1st floor and flat roofed stair tower to outer left.

S ELEVATION: single storey cottage adjoining at ground. Partial chimney breast projecting off centre left.

E ELEVATION: details of ground obscured by high boundary wall. 4 bays each with window, those to bays 2 and 4 in projecting stair towers; bipartite dormer windows over bays 1 and 3.

Plate glass glazing (lower sashes at ground part etched), 12 pane glazing pattern to dormers, all in timber sash and case windows. Grey slates. Coped and harled gablehead stacks with cans, ashlar coped skews and cast iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers.

INTERIOR: cornicing with egg and dart moulding at ground.

BOUNDARY WALLS: flat coped rubble boundary walls.

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