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Crawford Priory

A Category B Listed Building in Cupar, Fife

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.2913 / 56°17'28"N

Longitude: -3.0531 / 3°3'11"W

OS Eastings: 334915

OS Northings: 711482

OS Grid: NO349114

Mapcode National: GBR 2F.7Q16

Mapcode Global: WH7S8.24FB

Plus Code: 9C8R7WRW+GQ

Entry Name: Crawford Priory

Listing Name: Crawford Priory Former Stable Block

Listing Date: 1 March 1984

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 333514

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB2569

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200333514

Location: Cults

County: Fife

Electoral Ward: Cupar

Parish: Cults

Traditional County: Fife

Tagged with: Stable

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Description

Built 1871. Symmetrically planned large 1 and 2-storey stable block with baronial detailing built round rectangular courtyard. Snecked and stugged ashlar with ashlar dressings. South elevation: wide advanced bay in centre with segmentally-arched pend, horse head keystone, panelled spandrels, tripartite above and crowstepped gable with blind oculus and diminutive angle turrets. Central block flanked by 7-bays wings 2-1 - 3-1, the single bays advanced with hood-moulded windows and crowstepped gables, 2-bay section 2-storey, 3-bay single storey. Wings return round courtyard, mostly single storey, some with lofts: courtyard

elevation of west block has series of carriage arches mostly segmental- headed: east block has series of stables, doors and windows to courtyard, gabled wall-head dormers to east elevation, and gableted and pinnacled axial roof vents. North block has 3 2-storey central bays (2 gabled) with 3 blocked segmental-headed carriageways to courtyard. Some

bracketed roof gutters: gableted, crowstepped gables, corniced bow-ended axial stacks and slate roof. Interior mostly intact.

Statement of Interest

NMRS index notes that William Little, Kirkcaldy and Rodolph Fielding, architects, were employed at Crawford Priory 1870-72, so probably one of these designed the stables.

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