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Broomfield Cottage, Broomfield

A Category C Listed Building in Kennoway, Fife

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.2169 / 56°13'1"N

Longitude: -3.1165 / 3°6'59"W

OS Eastings: 330856

OS Northings: 703268

OS Grid: NO308032

Mapcode National: GBR 2C.D7SP

Mapcode Global: WH6R9.3Z7X

Plus Code: 9C8R6V8M+QC

Entry Name: Broomfield Cottage, Broomfield

Listing Name: Star, Broomfield Cottage with Boundary Wall

Listing Date: 1 February 2000

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 394362

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB46975

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200394362

Location: Kennoway

County: Fife

Electoral Ward: Glenrothes North, Leslie and Markinch

Parish: Kennoway

Traditional County: Fife

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Description

Earlier to mid (pre 1854) 19th century, altered to rear. Single storey, 3-bay traditional cottage. Squared and coursed dark whinstone rubble with contrasting droved quoins; roughly coursed rubble to sides and rear. Eaves course.

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: symmetrical. Deep-set timber door with plate glass letterbox fanlight at centre, windows in flanking bays.

E ELEVATION: window off-centre right.

N ELEVATION: harled extension at centre with window to left.

12-pane glazing pattern (that to E lying-pane) in timber sash and case windows. Clay pantiles. Coped ashlar stacks with thackstanes and cans; ashlar-coped skews with scroll skewputts.

BOUNDARY WALL: semicircular-coped rubble boundary walls.

Statement of Interest

Property of Balbirnie Estate. Cunningham says that in 1836 Star boasted a population of 232, and was a "long straggling hamlet of little houses with red tiles", also that the handloom was already out-of-date resulting in a return to agricultural employment. Broomfield Cottage is a good example of traditional architecture in Star, much of which has been unsympathetically altered or eradicated. The scrolled skewputts are either re-used from an earlier structure or pay homage to traditional pre 1800 design.

Due to confusion over boundaries this was removed from Kennoway Parish and into Markinch Parish in March 2000. Now reinstated in Kennoway Parish August 2000.

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