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Latitude: 56.1789 / 56°10'44"N
Longitude: -3.2249 / 3°13'29"W
OS Eastings: 324056
OS Northings: 699147
OS Grid: NT240991
Mapcode National: GBR 27.GMFT
Mapcode Global: WH6RF.FYKK
Plus Code: 9C8R5QHG+H2
Entry Name: Bankhead House
Listing Name: Bankhead House with Outbuilding, Boundary Walls, Gatepiers and Gates
Listing Date: 4 October 1996
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 390233
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB43662
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200390233
Mid 19th century. 2-storey and single storey, 3-bay, crowstepped former farmhouse. Coursed and random rubble, rendered to W; droved ashlar quoins and raised quoin strips. Eaves course: hoodmoulds, chamfered arrises and stone mullions.
S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 3 steps up to deep-set timber door with 2-pane fanlight in doorway with moulded brackets and canopy at centre, hoodmoulded bipartite window in bay to left and further window above to each bay; advanced gable to right of centre with canted window at ground, hoodmoulded window at 1st floor and blinded arrow slit in gablehead.
E ELEVATION: window in bay to right of centre at ground and to outer bays at 1st floor, gablet at centre with tall stack. Single storey bay with window to outer right.
N ELEVATION: advanced L-plan, single storey wing with asymmetrical fenestration and door in re-entrant angle.
W ELEVATION: 2 small windows in bay to left at ground and further window at 1st floor, single storey bay to outer left with 2 windows.
Modern glazing throughout. Grey slates. Coped ashlar stacks, that to E with polygonal cans; ashlar coped skews and moulded skewputts.
INTERIOR: winding staircase with decorative cast-iron balusters and timber handrail.
OUTBUILDING: crowstepped and pantiled, rectangular-plan rubble outbuilding. S elevation with door to left of centre, bipartite window beyond and segmental-headed cart-arch with 2-leaf boarded timber door to outer left; 3 narrow windows to right of centre. Bipartite window to W.
GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: pyramidal-coped square ashlar gatepiers and coped rubble boundary walls, some with semicircular coping.
Property of Charles Balfour, Markinch in 1896. Outbuilding forms S range of original steading, remainder of which have been unsympathetically altered. Reinstatement of traditional glazing would promote the interest of this prominently sited building.
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