Brunton Court, High Street, Markinch is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 September 1979. Church.
Brunton Court, High Street, Markinch
- WRENN ID
- swift-rubblework-wagtail
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Glenrothes and Mid Fife MP: Richard Baker (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 10 September 1979
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- NO 298 017
- Coordinates
- 56.20282, -3.1327
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Brunton Court, located on High Street in Markinch, is a Gothic hall church built by Robert Hutchison between 1843 and 1844, which was converted into flats in 1994. The building features a gabled front with a corbelled and pinnacled ashlar birdcage bellcote. It has pinnacled battered buttresses and a two-bay nave with a church hall adjoining on the southwest. The exterior is made of dressed ashlar with squared and snecked rubble on the sides and rear, along with droved quoins and a base course. The pointed-arch openings are adorned with hoodmoulds and chamfered reveals.
The east elevation is symmetrical, showcasing a modern timber door with a two-pane fanlight set in a four-centre arched doorway, which has a square hoodmould. This is located below the battered cill of a tall modern traceried window with a hoodmould in the gablehead. Above this, a corbel leads to the open bellcote, flanked by crenellation. There are buttresses on either side of the center, with tall windows featuring modern tracery.
On the west elevation, there is a tall window to the left of center, with new windows at the ground and first floors to the left and another new window on the right at the first floor. A blind roundel is present in the gablehead, along with a truncated stack above. The converted hall is located at the outer right.
The north elevation has two tall windows with a new window between them on both floors, and a door to the right, with an additional new window at the outer right on the first floor. The eaves are interrupted by two modern dormer windows.
The south elevation mirrors the north, featuring two tall windows with a new window between them on both floors, and the eaves are also broken by two modern dormer windows. The hall is attached at the outer left.
Modern traceried windows are present on the east side, while pivot-opening plate glass glazing is used elsewhere, all set in timber frames. The roof is covered with grey slates, and the building has ashlar coped skews.
The boundary walls consist of semicircular-coped rubble.
Local climate
Brunton Court, High Street, Markinch receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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