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East Lodge, Balbirnie House, Balbirnie Park

A Category C Listed Building in Markinch, Fife

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.2074 / 56°12'26"N

Longitude: -3.1365 / 3°8'11"W

OS Eastings: 329597

OS Northings: 702231

OS Grid: NO295022

Mapcode National: GBR 2B.DWVH

Mapcode Global: WH6RG.S7MM

Plus Code: 9C8R6V47+XC

Entry Name: East Lodge, Balbirnie House, Balbirnie Park

Listing Name: Balbirnie Park, Lodge at Stob Cross with Gatepier and Boundary Walls

Listing Date: 1 March 1996

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 389273

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB42963

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200389273

Location: Markinch

County: Fife

Electoral Ward: Glenrothes North, Leslie and Markinch

Parish: Markinch

Traditional County: Fife

Tagged with: Gatehouse

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Description

Mid to later 19th century. Single storey and laigh floor, 4 bay,

L plan, piend roofed lodge house on ground falling to N. Stugged ashlar and dry dash with dressed quoins. Eaves course. Chamfered reveals.

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: timber door in advanced, piend roofed, stone porch to right of centre with canted outer angles and moulded at apex, narrow windows on returns; window in bay to outer right and 2 windows to left.

N ELEVATION: advanced bay to left with 2 windows, 3 windows to right. Laigh floor projecting to left with 3 boarded timber doors, detail to right obscured.

E ELEVATION: window to left of centre in slightly advanced bay.

W ELEVATION: blank.

4, 8, 10 pane glazing patterns and plate glass glazing in timber sash and case windows. Cavetto coped, 2 flue ashlar stack with chamfered arrises and cans. Graded grey slates.

GATEPIER AND BOUNDARY WALL: large, square, pyramidal coped ashlar gatepier with base course, cavetto cornice and moulded, blind tablet. Semicircular coped rubble boundary walls.

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