Description

Probably William Williamson and Hubbard, 1938. Single and 2-storey, 8-bay (bays grouped 1-1-4-1-1-), rectangular-plan Lodge House with stepped, swept roof and porch in stylised (functional?) Arts and Crafts manner. Harled with stone cills and door margins. Base course and part cill course.

E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: symmetrical. Recessed centre bays with tall brick base course, 2 windows flanking centre with further window in bay to right and part-glazed timber door to left, slightly advanced flanking bays with part-glazed timber doors, all shielded by flat-roofed porch supported on 2 square columns below centre plaque worded ?Fife County Council Cameron Hospital? between small windows, and advanced flanking bays with narrow windows below swept roofline; further advanced, single storey outer bays with windows below swept roofline.

W ELEVATION: symmetrical. Ground floor obscured by screen hedges. 1st floor with 2 windows at centre in advanced, flat-roofed, tile hung bay with flanking gabled bays, each with narrow window and lower roofline and recessed narrow blank bay beyond.

N elevation: narrow with swept roof to left and full-height vertical wall to right with stack breaking short skew. Window at 1st floor centre.

S ELEVATION: mirror of N elevation.

Plate glass glazing in casement and top-opening windows. Red tiles. Coped harled stacks with cans.

GATEPIERS: cement-rendered obelisk gatepiers.

Statement of Interest

William Williamson & Hubbard were architects for Fife Healthcare Trust?s new Cameron House (former nurses? home) and the Administration Building in 1938, and thus are probably responsible for the Lodge House.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q77770010

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Recommended Books

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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2