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Latitude: 56.1754 / 56°10'31"N
Longitude: -3.2394 / 3°14'21"W
OS Eastings: 323148
OS Northings: 698775
OS Grid: NT231987
Mapcode National: GBR 26.GXWX
Mapcode Global: WH6RM.61PP
Plus Code: 9C8R5QG6+56
Entry Name: Miner's Welfare Institute, Main Street, Kinglassie
Listing Name: Kinglassie, Main Street, Miners Welfare Institute with Boundary Walls
Listing Date: 4 October 1996
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 390238
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB43667
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200390238
Location: Kinglassie
County: Fife
Electoral Ward: Glenrothes West and Kinglassie
Parish: Kinglassie
Traditional County: Fife
Tagged with: Architectural structure
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.
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.
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