Description

1931 with minor later additions. Single storey, 7-bay colonial style pavilion with swept roofs and prominent pagoda style ventilator to ridge. Painted harl with brick base course, eaves course, round-headed openings to W and N, concrete mullions.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: (originally symmetrical). Steps up to wide pedimented canopy with blocking course supported on 4 piers, 2-leaf timber door at centre. Swept lead roof to square ventilator with decorative wrought-iron weathervane finial at centre. Blank bays flanking centre below squat, slated, swept-roof bipartite timber dormers; window in bay to right and door to left; slightly advanced flanking gables with slated, swept-roof canted windows and mock timber beaming in gableheads; slightly set-back small flat-roofed extension with window to outer left.

W ELEVATION: variety of elements including advanced bay to left with

2 small windows and keystoned, round-headed doorway to outer left.

N ELEVATION: asymmetrical round-headed fenestration to recessed centre bays with dormer windows as S elevation, advanced bay to right and modern extensions to left.

E ELEVATION: largely blank with small modern porch.

Small-pane glazing pattern to timber dormer windows, modern glazing elsewhere. Purple slates. Brick coped, harled stacks with cans. Cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers to S; plain bargeboarding.

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

BOUNDARY WALLS: coped rubble boundary walls.

Statement of Interest

Kinglassie Colliery opened circa 1900 but this building is all that remains of a once thriving industry. Reinstatement of traditional glazing would further enhance this unusual and elegant building in its prominent position overlooking the Main Street.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q77770777

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Recommended Books

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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record