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Wester Balbeggie Farmhouse

A Category C Listed Building in Lochgelly, Cardenden and Benarty, Fife

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.1547 / 56°9'16"N

Longitude: -3.1726 / 3°10'21"W

OS Eastings: 327258

OS Northings: 696400

OS Grid: NT272964

Mapcode National: GBR 29.J75M

Mapcode Global: WH6RN.7KHL

Plus Code: 9C8R5R3G+VX

Entry Name: Wester Balbeggie Farmhouse

Listing Name: Wester Balbeggie Farmhouse with Boundary Walls

Listing Date: 26 March 1998

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 392363

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB45468

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200392363

Location: Kirkcaldy and Dysart

County: Fife

Electoral Ward: Lochgelly, Cardenden and Benarty

Parish: Kirkcaldy And Dysart

Traditional County: Fife

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Description

Late 18th to early 19th century. 2-storey, 3-bay, rectangular-plan traditional farmhouse with later? bowed wing. Roughly coursed rubble with ashlar quoins and raised margins. Eaves lintel course.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: deep-set part-glazed panelled timber door to centre with windows in flanking bays and regular fenestration to 1st floor.

E ELEVATION: gabled bay to left with window to each floor at outer left and broad gablehead stack; lower advanced bowed bay with 3 windows to centre, lower wing with 2 windows to outer right.

W ELEVATION: gabled bay to right with window to each floor at outer right; lower wing to left with window slapping and door beyond.

Plate glazing in timber sash and case windows. Graded grey slates. Ashlar-coped skews and coped ashlar stacks, that to E with polygonal cans, that to W rendered; thackstanes.

INTERIOR: some plain cornicing, panelled shutters and stone staircase to original house; decorative plasterwork cornicing and carved timber fireplace to bowed wing.

BOUNDARY WALLS: coped rubble boundary walls enclosing garden to S, E and W.

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