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Latitude: 56.1093 / 56°6'33"N
Longitude: -3.1601 / 3°9'36"W
OS Eastings: 327948
OS Northings: 691331
OS Grid: NT279913
Mapcode National: GBR 29.M40H
Mapcode Global: WH6RV.FPFX
Plus Code: 9C8R4R5Q+PX
Entry Name: Burton's, 89-95 High Street, Kirkcaldy
Listing Name: 89-95 (Odd Nos) High Street and 2 Whytecauseway, Burton's
Listing Date: 27 February 1997
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 390707
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB44014
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Kirkcaldy, 89-95 High Street, Burton's
ID on this website: 200390707
Location: Kirkcaldy
County: Fife
Town: Kirkcaldy
Electoral Ward: Kirkcaldy Central
Traditional County: Fife
Tagged with: Architectural structure
1937. 3-storey, Burton's Art Deco department store (house-style variation) with shop at ground, on corner site. Polished ashlar and red brick with marble and render. Giant pilasters with stylised Ionic capitals articulate bays of curtain wall at 1st and 2nd floors. Base and deep fascia courses, and entablature with deep, stepped parapet.
S (HIGH STREET) ELEVATION: 5-bay above ground. Bay to left of centre with paired 2-leaf deep-set glazed doors, 2 display windows to right, bays divided by concrete piers. 4 tall windows with further narrow window to outer right and dividing pilasters to each floor above, chevron-ornamented metal aprons aprons between floors.
CORNER (SW) ELEVATION: 3 chamfered pillars with 2 display windows to ground, rounded fascia and band course above and 3 windows with dividing pilasters and paired outer pilasters to each floor above surmounted by tallest step of blocking course (see Notes).
W (WHYTECAUSEWAY) ELEVATION: 6-bay above ground. 2 display windows with dividing piers to right of centre; shop to left with marble surround, door flanked by display windows and further window beyond to left; deep-set 2-leaf panelled timber door in marble doorway with commemorative plinth stones (see Notes) to outer left, all below marble fascia band. Bays above ground as S elevation with narrow window to outer left.
N (HILL STREET) ELEVATION: asymmetrical fenestration with 5 boarded timber openings to left at ground.
Large 6-pane, with margin glazing, metal frame windows to S, SW and W; similar windows without margins to N.
INTERIOR: stone stair with timber handrail and dado.
A 1949 photograph shows this building with large lettering on blocking course 'BURTON', and what appears to be a complete marble fascia band. The commemorative stones were laid by the Burton Brothers, 2 black to Whytecauseway by Raymond Montague and Stanley Edward, and 1 white (no longer evident) to the High Street by Arnold. The 1st floor was home to the Plaza ballroom with the Central Billiard Saloon above. Another Burton's in comparable Art Deco style can be seen in St Nicholas Street, Aberdeen.
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