Headwell House, Headwell Avenue, Dunfermline

Early 19th century. 2-storey; 3-bay, classical T-plan house. Advanced central bay with pediment and columned doorpiece. Principal elevation; painted ashlar; V-jointed ground floor including voussoirs; advanced string course; advanced, continuous corniced cill course at 1st floor and corniced eaves course. Advanced quoins; and 1st floor window surrounds. Tooled exposed sandstone to W and N elevations; rendered N stair tower and E elevation.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: central door; fanlight; plain Tuscan columns and entablature to advanced doorpiece. Flanking windows; 3 1st floor windows centred above.

W ELEVATION: 2 ground floor windows to outer bays; 2 1st floor windows centred above.

N ELEVATION: 2 ground floor windows to left; 1st floor window to left. Central projecting pitched stair tower; window at 1st floor; ground floor door in right return. Further mono-pitched section extends from stair tower; ground floor door; doorway in left return; steps lead to door in right return; 1st floor window in left return.

E ELEVATION: central 1st floor window.

All openings boarded up. Pitched slate roof; raised flat-headed skews. Capped gable apex stacks; ashlar to E; rendered to W.

INTERIOR: not seen, 2000.

BOUNDARY WALL: sandstone rubble wall; curved coping stones; swept at SE corner. Central pair of chamfered ashlar gatepiers; pyramidal caps; replacement gates.