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5 Balwearie Road, Kirkcaldy

A Category C Listed Building in Kirkcaldy, Fife

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.1031 / 56°6'11"N

Longitude: -3.1695 / 3°10'10"W

OS Eastings: 327351

OS Northings: 690650

OS Grid: NT273906

Mapcode National: GBR 29.MFWY

Mapcode Global: WH6RV.8VYP

Plus Code: 9C8R4R3J+65

Entry Name: 5 Balwearie Road, Kirkcaldy

Listing Name: 5 Balwearie Road and 1 Balwearie Crescent

Listing Date: 26 March 1998

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 392407

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB45488

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200392407

Location: Kirkcaldy

County: Fife

Town: Kirkcaldy

Electoral Ward: Burntisland, Kinghorn and Western Kirkcaldy

Traditional County: Fife

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Description

Swanston & Syme, 1905. Single storey and attic, 6-bay, long T-plan, mirrored pair of houses with mock half-timbered M-gable. Bull-faced, squared and snecked red rubble with red sandstone ashlar dressings at ground and contrasting harl over. Part string course, deeply overhanging eaves and decorative bargeboarding.

NW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical. Broad advanced centre gable with 2 corniced, tripartite, bow windows flanked by small windows with coloured glass, 2 quadripartite windows above with lintels abutting jettied half-timbered gablehead. Flanking recessed bays identical with canted porch and part-glazed 2-leaf timber door with flanking lights in re-entrant angles, tiny window above and further window to outer bays.

SW ELEVATION: gabled single bay elevation with advanced tripartite window and swept, tiled roof below further tripartite window with lintel abutting jettied half-timbered gable.

NE ELEVATION: as SW elevation.

Small-pane glazing patterns in timber sash and case windows. Tall, battered, cavetto-coped harled stacks with cans. Cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers.

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