Bowhill Public House, 131, 133 Station Road, Auchterderran

1904; clock tower by William Syme of Kirkcaldy, 1920. 2-storey with cellar, gabled, public house on corner site with lead domed, 4-stage Baroque corner tower orielled at 1st floor. Red brick and cement-render with contrasting ashlar quoins and surrounds; base course, bracketed and sparsely-mutuled cornice over ground floor and moulded eaves course. Some segmental-headed openings, stone mullions, keystone and corbelling.

CORNER TOWER: to NE. 2-leaf timber door with plate glass fanlight in segmental-headed, keystoned and moulded doorway; tower corbelled to cornice above with canted tripartite window at 1st floor below bracketed course with chamfered angles and cavetto cornice; ashlar 3rd stage, 8-sided with window to NE, remaining faces blind with elongated moulded brackets to chamfered outer angles, cavetto cornice; ashlar 4th stage with pedimented Roman clock faces to N, S and E (triangular pediments to N and S, semicircular to E and W) and blind oculus to W: timber louvres to recessed faces. Segmental moulding and attenuated finial to panelled lead dome.

E ELEVATION: 3-bay. Gabled bay to right (adjoining tower) with 3-part segmental-headed window at ground, bipartite window at 1st floor and gable above breaking eaves with corbelled and semicircular-moulded base to shouldered stack piercing gablehead: further gabled bay to left with bipartite window to both floors and blinded arrow slit in finialled gablehead: centre bay with 3-part segmental-headed window at ground, adjacent door to right, blocked door to left and further door beyond to left.

N ELEVATION: 3-bay. Gabled bay to left (adjoining tower) with 3-part segmental-headed window at ground, bipartite window at 1st floor and blind arrow slit in finialled gablehead breaking eaves; similar gabled bay to right but with bipartite window at ground; centre bay with door to right and adjacent window to left, 3-part segmental-headed windows to centre and left, 1st floor with bipartite window at centre, 2 windows to right and further window to left.

W ELEVATION: flight of stone steps lead to small 1st floor porch with timber door.

S ELEVATION: variety of elements including cellar doors and asymmetrical fenestration.

4-pane and plate glass glazing patterns in timber sash and case windows; small-pane over plate glass glazing in segmental-headed windows (N centre and E right with extractor fans at centre). Grey slates. Cavetto-coped ashlar stacks with some cans and ashlar coped skews with moulded and flat skewputts.

INTERIOR: panelled archway with moulded pilasters, decorative plasterwork and egg and dart cornicing; dog-leg stair with decorative cast-iron balusters, timber handrail and stair window with coloured margin. Cellar with square, stone pillars extending full-height of building, and wall niches (see Notes).