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191 Nicol Street, Kirkcaldy

A Category C Listed Building in Kirkcaldy, Fife

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.1074 / 56°6'26"N

Longitude: -3.1661 / 3°9'57"W

OS Eastings: 327572

OS Northings: 691125

OS Grid: NT275911

Mapcode National: GBR 29.M8MT

Mapcode Global: WH6RV.BRKC

Plus Code: 9C8R4R4M+XH

Entry Name: 191 Nicol Street, Kirkcaldy

Listing Name: 191 Nicol Street with Boundary Walls

Listing Date: 27 February 1997

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 390780

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB44086

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200390780

Location: Kirkcaldy

County: Fife

Town: Kirkcaldy

Electoral Ward: Kirkcaldy Central

Traditional County: Fife

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Description

Later to late 19th century, extended. 2-storey and attic, 3-bay classically detailed house with 2-bay extension, (converted to offices) with Composite columned doorcase. Narrow stugged ashlar blocks with dressed ashlar long and short quoins, and margins; random sandstone rubble and harl to rear. Deep base course, cornice and blocking courses to ground floor windows and at eaves. Round and segmental- headed openings; raised, lugged margins to 1st floor and plain aprons to ground floor windows; keystone, corbelling and stone mullions.

W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: columned doorcase with plain frieze and flat consoles over deep-set panelled timber door with plate glass fanlight in bay to left of centre, pilastered tripartite window with decorative frieze beyond to left; canted round-headed tripartite window to right with keystoned centre light and smaller flanking lights corbelled to frieze above, 2 bipartite windows in slightly set-back bays beyond to right. Regular fenestration to 1st floor and segmental-headed slat- hung dormer window over bays 1 and 3.

E ELEVATION: asymmetrical fenestration including round-headed stair window to centre over low piend-roofed, harled extension and canted tripartite dormer window flanked by dominant shouldered wallhead stacks.

N ELEVATION: 2-bay. Segmental-headed window (altered from door) to left at ground; windows to right blocked; centre wallhead stack.

S ELEVATION: window off-centre right at ground and further window to centre at 1st floor below wallhead stack.

4-, 12-pane and plate glass glazing patterns in timber sash and case windows, except altered door to N with top-opening timber windows. Grey slates. Coped and shouldered ashlar stacks and cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hopper.

BOUNDARY WALLS: coped rubble boundary walls.

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