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Latitude: 56.2941 / 56°17'38"N
Longitude: -2.6418 / 2°38'30"W
OS Eastings: 360375
OS Northings: 711478
OS Grid: NO603114
Mapcode National: GBR 2Y.7DFC
Mapcode Global: WH8TL.D276
Plus Code: 9C8V79V5+J7
Entry Name: Cambo House
Listing Name: Cambo House
Listing Date: 23 November 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 340963
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB8759
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200340963
Location: Kingsbarns
County: Fife
Electoral Ward: East Neuk and Landward
Parish: Kingsbarns
Traditional County: Fife
Tagged with: House
Wardrop & Reid 1879-81, tower 1884. Large late classic mansion house. Main block 110' x 140', 3-storey. Entrance (W) front 5-window, centre bay advanced with pediment, coupled doric column porch, Roman Ionic tripartite above. Lower 3-storey N wing, 2-storey section with pend to court and 3-storey isolation wing with tall clock tower. S front advanced ends with 2-storey bay windows and central bay window. Pedimented E elevation with single storey N wing. Stugged ashlar, quoined angles, low-pitched piended roofs, slated. Simple interior with some good plaster work in drawing room, elaborately carved wooden chimney pieces.
Built for Sir Thomas Erskine. The old house was burnt in July 1878. The conservative near-Georgian treatment is remarkable for its date.
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