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Latitude: 56.1479 / 56°8'52"N
Longitude: -3.2643 / 3°15'51"W
OS Eastings: 321549
OS Northings: 695744
OS Grid: NT215957
Mapcode National: GBR 25.JQM1
Mapcode Global: WH6RL.TQRS
Plus Code: 9C8R4PXP+57
Entry Name: Old Miner's Institute, 20 Main Street, Bowhill, Auchterderran
Listing Name: Bowhill, Main Street, Old Miners' Institute
Listing Date: 4 October 1996
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 390224
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB43653
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200390224
Location: Auchterderran
County: Fife
Electoral Ward: Lochgelly, Cardenden and Benarty
Parish: Auchterderran
Traditional County: Fife
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Late 19th - early 20th century, additions to rear. Single and 2-storey, 10-bay, rectangular-plan disused former institute. Polychrome brick, red with contrasting brick dressings. Base, billeted band and eaves courses; roundheaded doorway, hoodmould, dividing pilasters.
W ELEVATION: 5 2-storey bays to right, single storey to left, all openings blocked. 5 bays with pedimented, roundheaded doorway with hoodmould in bay to outer left, 4 windows to right and regular fenestration at 1st floor. Single-storey bays with 3 windows to centre and right, doorway (altered from window?) in penultimate bay to left and further window to outer left with stop-chamfered angle beyond.
S ELEVATION: 2 windows to each floor with blinded oculus in gablehead. Purple slates; coped ashlar skews, brick stacks with mutuled coping and decorative terracotta ridge tiles.
The Bowhill Coal Company (dating from the early 1890s) started building colliery workers houses in 1895. It is presumed that the the institute followed soon after. It was replaced by a new institute on Orebank Road, which opened in April 1934 and was referred to as innovative and fulfilling the hopes of "30 years ago" when "the inhabitants had been looking forward to the opening of a recreational centre by the conversion of dwelling houses" (The Times). This account may indicate some other origin for the above building. The old institute was used by the United Free Church and accommodated various clubs including the 'Make-Do and Mend' craft club during WWII.
List Description updated 2011.
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