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Latitude: 56.1937 / 56°11'37"N
Longitude: -2.9987 / 2°59'55"W
OS Eastings: 338123
OS Northings: 700570
OS Grid: NO381005
Mapcode National: GBR 2H.FQ8P
Mapcode Global: WH7SN.XL75
Plus Code: 9C8V52V2+FG
Entry Name: The Corner, 2 High Street, Leven
Listing Name: Shorehead, the Corner, Barron
Listing Date: 28 September 1999
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 393842
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB46513
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200393842
Location: Leven
County: Fife
Town: Leven
Electoral Ward: Leven, Kennoway and Largo
Traditional County: Fife
Tagged with: Shop
1914. 2-storey shop with corner tower on prominent corner site. Polished ashlar, channelled at ground. Deep traditional fascia, ground floor cornice, deep 1st floor cill course and eaves cornice; mutuled eaves cornice to towerhead. Stone mullions and chamfered arrises.
S (SHOREHEAD) ELEVATION: in-canted timber door with etched glass to deep fanlight and further narrow fanlight above, flanking lights and further full-width, 3-light outer fanlight. Rounded angle above with fascia giving way to tripartite window and breaking eaves into finialled conical roof.
SE (HIGH STREET ELEVATION: 4-part traditional display window with broad channelled pier to outer right, canvas blinds, full width fascia with 'BARRON' in gold lettering, and moulded bracket to outer right; bipartite window to centre at 1st floor, and single windows in flanking bays.
SW (UNION) STREET ELEVATION: display window with broad channelled pier to outer left, and lettered fascia and bracket as above; single window to 1st floor.
Plate glass glazing in timber sash and case windows to 1st floor, fixed display windows to ground. Small grey/green slates. Cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers.
INTERIOR: panelled timber counter and traditional shelving, boarded timber ceiling. Clock above main entrance by D Mitchell of Leven.
Toward the end of the nineteenth century, the family firm of Barron was established by ex-provost George Barron in 2 rooms of his home in Bank Street. With the advent of the Wemyss Tramways in 1906, Leven became a popular shopping centre, and the business was very successful. Today Barron's is a rare example of a traditional family owned draper's shop retaining original features, and a local feature in the corner tower, employed across the burgh's commercial heart.
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