192-196 High Street, Kirkcaldy is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 February 1997. Tenement.
192-196 High Street, Kirkcaldy
- WRENN ID
- deep-jamb-quill
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 27 February 1997
- Type
- Tenement
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
192-196 High Street in Kirkcaldy is a three-storey, three-bay tenement building designed by Robert Little between 1893 and 1895. The structure features a shop at the ground and first floors, and is constructed from cleaned ashlar stone. Notable architectural details include a balustrade adorned with carved griffins, cornices on the first and second floors, and an eaves cornice with fluted mutules. The windows are designed as shouldered tripartites set in dentilled elliptical and basket-arched surrounds, with engaged colonnettes featuring foliate capitals. All tripartite windows have dogtooth moulding, tabbed and architraved surrounds, and moulded brackets, with voussoirs, chamfered arrises, and stone mullions.
The north elevation facing High Street is symmetrical. The ground floor has modern shop display windows, with a door located to the outer left. The first floor features an advanced tripartite window in the center, with an elliptical arch supported by flanking pilasters that have fish-scale detailing at the base, and foliate panels in the spandrels. Canted tripartite windows are present in the flanking bays, which also have outer pilaster strips. The second floor has an advanced tripartite window in the center, with bracketed bipartite windows in the flanking bays and outer pilaster strips. The balustrade includes a central cartouche inscribed with 'B & M' in a segmental panel, flanked by square dies with carved eagles, circular interlocking balusters, and ball-finialled dies over the outer bays.
The building features plate glass glazing in timber sash and case windows, and has cavetto coped ashlar stacks with some chimney cans.
Inside, there is a dog-leg stair with cast-iron barley-twist balusters and a timber handrail.
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