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338 High Street, Lower Methil

A Category C Listed Building in Buckhaven, Methil and Wemyss Villages, Fife

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.1839 / 56°11'1"N

Longitude: -3.0124 / 3°0'44"W

OS Eastings: 337256

OS Northings: 699489

OS Grid: NT372994

Mapcode National: GBR 2H.G76J

Mapcode Global: WH7SN.PTQQ

Plus Code: 9C8R5XMQ+H2

Entry Name: 338 High Street, Lower Methil

Listing Name: Lower Methil, 313-338 (Inclusive Nos) High Street, St Andrew's Square

Listing Date: 17 March 1999

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 393231

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB46074

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200393231

Location: Buckhaven and Methil

County: Fife

Town: Buckhaven And Methil

Electoral Ward: Buckhaven, Methil and Wemyss Villages

Traditional County: Fife

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Description

Earlier 20th century. Terraced crescent of 2-storey local authority housing with crowstepped gables and Scottish 17th century details. Harled with stone margins and ashlar quoins strips. Segmental- and round-headed pend openings. Moulded doorways with bracketed cornices. Stone mullions.

NW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: symmetrical. Slightly advanced crowstepped gable to centre with broad pend entrance flanked by doors at ground, segmentally-pedimented window to centre at 1st floor and blind arrowslit in gablehead. 3 bipartite window to each floor in flanking bays with doors below windows and crowstepped gablets beyond. 7-bay wing to left with pend entrance to centre, blank at 1st floor and arrowslit in crowstepped gablehead, flanking bays with bipartite windows to each floor, paired doors below 2 narrow lights in penultimate bays and further bipartite windows to outer bays. 7-bay wing to right mirrors that to left.

W AND N ELEVATIONS: crowstepped gable with blind round-headed gunloop at 1st floor and gablehead stack.

8-, 12-, 16-pane and plate glass glazing patterns in timber sash and case windows, 1 property with non-traditional pattern. Coped harled stacks with cans, ashlar-coped skews and beak skewputts.

Statement of Interest

Possibly by G C Campbell who was responsible for some of the high quality local authority housing in Methil. Built on the site of 'Lindsay Square'.

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