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Latitude: 56.0702 / 56°4'12"N
Longitude: -3.1746 / 3°10'28"W
OS Eastings: 326974
OS Northings: 686992
OS Grid: NT269869
Mapcode National: GBR 29.PDS0
Mapcode Global: WH6S1.6PKD
Plus Code: 9C8R3RCG+35
Entry Name: Cross Buildings, 21-35 High Street, Kinghorn
Listing Name: 21-35 (Odd Nos), High Street, Cross Buildings
Listing Date: 9 March 2000
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 394212
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB46842
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200394212
Location: Kinghorn
County: Fife
Town: Kinghorn
Electoral Ward: Burntisland, Kinghorn and Western Kirkcaldy
Traditional County: Fife
Late 19th century. 3-storey, 6-bay, classically-detailed tenement with shops at ground. Stugged, squared and snecked rubble with ashlar dressings. Deep stone fascia and ground floor cornice, moulded 1st floor cill course and mutuled eaves cornice. Keystoned, moulded, round-headed pend and tenement doorways; fluted Ionic dividing pilasters to all shops at ground; architraved windows, those to 1st floor pedimented, those to 2nd floor aproned. Stone mullions.
NW (HIGH STREET) ELEVATION: shop window with roller shutters to off-centre left bay at ground; flanking round-headed keystoned doorways, that to left with modern part-glazed timber door and decoratively-astragalled fanlight, that to right to pend with 'CROSS BUILDINGS' on fascia above. 2 traditional shopfronts (interiors converted to 1) to right of centre with outer fixed display windows, and in-canted part-glazed timber doors with deep plate glass fanlights and mosaic tiled floors to centre. 2-bay shop to left of centre with bipartite fixed display window to outer left and further display window with in-canted door to left in bay to right. 1st and 2nd floors each with bipartite windows to bays 1, 3 and 6, remaining bays with single windows.
NE ELEVATION: windows to outer right at 1st and 2nd floors.
4-pane and plate glass glazing patterns in timber sash and case windows to principal elevation. Slated. Coped ashlar stacks with full complement of cans; ashlar-coped skews; cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers and fixings.
INTERIOR: stone staircases with cast-iron barleytwist balusters and timber handrails.
Cross Buildings stands near the site of the old Town Cross. No 22 was formerly an ice cream shop owned by Mr Lucian who also ran a billiard saloon and wafer-making factory. Earlier fabric, much altered, extending to rear following former rig lines. Planning permission granted for sympathetic alteration to shop front at Nos 31-33.
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