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Latitude: 56.1139 / 56°6'50"N
Longitude: -3.1568 / 3°9'24"W
OS Eastings: 328160
OS Northings: 691845
OS Grid: NT281918
Mapcode National: GBR 29.LYHL
Mapcode Global: WH6RV.GLZB
Plus Code: 9C8R4R7V+H7
Entry Name: 46 And 48 Townsend Place, Kirkcaldy
Listing Name: 48 Townsend Place with Boundary Walls
Listing Date: 27 February 1997
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 390795
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB44102
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200390795
Location: Kirkcaldy
County: Fife
Town: Kirkcaldy
Electoral Ward: Kirkcaldy Central
Traditional County: Fife
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Mid 19th century with later dormers. 2-storey and attic, 3-bay, rectangular-plan house on ground falling to S and terminating irregular terrace running to E. Coursed rubble with quoin strips; harled to side and rear. Base and eaves courses.
N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: corniced doorpiece with deep-set panelled timber door and plate glass fanlight to centre, windows in flanking bays and regular fenestration to 1st floor. Canted tripartite timber dormer windows with stop-chamfered arrises and finialled bargeboard pediments flanking modern rooflight at centre.
W ELEVATION: broad gabled bay with window to each floor and blank flat-roofed bay to right.
S ELEVATION: steps up to pedimented timber porch at centre with part-glazed door, stair window above and windows in flanking bays to each floor.
4-pane glazing pattern in timber sash and case windows. Grey slates. Coped ashlar stacks with cans and thackstanes, and ashlar-coped skews; cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers.
BOUNDARY WALLS: low saddleback-coped ashlar walls to N, coped rubble and brick boundary walls elsewhere.
Wood indicates a building on this site in 1824, but the current property dates from the mid 19th century, possibly incorporating earlier fabric.
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