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254 St Clair Street, Kirkcaldy

A Category C Listed Building in Kirkcaldy, Fife

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.1286 / 56°7'43"N

Longitude: -3.1369 / 3°8'12"W

OS Eastings: 329430

OS Northings: 693458

OS Grid: NT294934

Mapcode National: GBR 2B.KWRR

Mapcode Global: WH6RV.S7G2

Plus Code: 9C8R4VH7+C7

Entry Name: 254 St Clair Street, Kirkcaldy

Listing Name: 254 St Clair Street

Listing Date: 26 March 1998

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 392497

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB45552

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200392497

Location: Kirkcaldy

County: Fife

Town: Kirkcaldy

Electoral Ward: Kirkcaldy East

Traditional County: Fife

Tagged with: Pavilion

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Description

Late 19th century. 2-storey, 3-bay (above ground) commercial premises with Second Empire domed pavilion. Stone cleaned ashlar with channelled pilasters at 1st floor, lined cement render at ground, courses and squared rubble to sides. Dividing band course, frieze and cavetto cornice. Stone mullions.

W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: modern restaurant to ground with blocked door to outer right. 1st floor centre bay with tripartite window below carved stone, with 'beehive' and 'EST'D 1891', breaking eaves to mutuled segmental pediment, the whole flanked by pilaster strips with floreate carved corbels rising to ball-finialled polygonal turrets; outer bays with bipartite windows and further pilaster strips with fluted capitals. Large dome rising above centre bay with substantial decorative lead finial.

Plate glass glazing in timber sash and case windows; fixed display windows to ground. Grey slates, fish-scale pattern to dome. Cavetto-coped ashlar stack with polygonal cans to N, that to S truncated; ashlar-coped skews. Cast-iron downpipes with decorative cast-iron hoppers.

Statement of Interest

Instatement of in-character ground floor would greatly enhance the merit of No 254.

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