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Latitude: 56.171 / 56°10'15"N
Longitude: -3.0374 / 3°2'14"W
OS Eastings: 335680
OS Northings: 698074
OS Grid: NT356980
Mapcode National: GBR 2G.H7JG
Mapcode Global: WH7SV.95V3
Plus Code: 9C8R5XC7+92
Entry Name: Community Centre, Kinnear Street, Victoria Street, Buckhaven
Listing Name: Buckhaven, Victoria Street and Kinnear Street, Community Centre
Listing Date: 17 March 1999
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 393193
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB46070
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200393193
Location: Buckhaven and Methil
County: Fife
Town: Buckhaven And Methil
Electoral Ward: Buckhaven, Methil and Wemyss Villages
Traditional County: Fife
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Peter Sinclair, 1925. 2-storey, 3-bay, rectangular-plan, piend-roofed sub-Wrenaissance style former Miners' Welfare Institute. Harled with contrasting red sandstone dressings. Chamfered base course and cornice. Channelled pilastered doorcase with deep cornice and keystoned semicircular pediment; stone mullions.
W (VICTORIA STREET) ELEVATION: symmetrical. Ground floor with 2-leaf door to centre and bipartite windows in flanking bays; 1st floor centre bay with corbelled gabled panel bearing datestone, gablehead with arrowslit and flanking stylised pilasters breaking eaves above and finialled clock-cupola at roof ridge behind, bipartite windows in flanking bays.
N (KINNEAR STREET) ELEVATION: asymmetrical fenestration with variety of elements including tripartite windows in gabled bays and pedimented round-headed window in corbelled panel. Modern entrance to outer left.
Multi-pane glazing patterns in top-opening timber windows. Bright red pantiles. Coped harled stacks and ashlar-coped skews with moulded skewputts.
INTERIOR: panelled dadoes; entrance hall with glazed tile dado, panelled above, and panelled ceiling with decorative plasterwork cornicing, round-arched openings with moulded brackets. Small hall with coomb ceiling, Ionic pilasters flanking stage with stepped cornice and decorative cast-iron ventilators; former snooker room with coombe ceiling, plain cornice, decorative cast-iron ventilator; ceramic tiles and urinal to gents toilet.
Together with the institutes built at Denbeath and Methil, this former Miners' Welfare Institute "proved most valuable in a town where any other kind of community centre is lacking", (TSA).
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