The Mechanics Institute, 54-56 High Street, Dysart is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 January 1971. Restaurant, public house.
The Mechanics Institute, 54-56 High Street, Dysart
- WRENN ID
- tenth-casement-hazel
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 January 1971
- Type
- Restaurant, public house
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
James Aitken, dated 1874; 1898 alterations by D Forbes Smith. 2-storey and attic, 5-bay above ground, rectangular-plan, crowstepped restaurant and public house with 1st floor closed, in irregular terrace with Dysart Tolbooth to SW. Painted, stugged ashlar to ground, squared and snecked rubble with painted margins to 1st floor. Base course, ground floor cornice. Round-arched arcade at ground, stone mullions and stop-chamfered arrises.
NW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: centre bay with bracketed cornice over deep-set 2-leaf panelled timber door and radial-astragalled fanlight, 3 windows to right and 2 to left with further similar door to outer left. Slightly advanced crowstepped gablet over main entrance with panelled apron to bipartite window and Burgh Arms on dated panel in thistle-finialled gablehead; 2 windows in flanking bays.
SE (REAR) ELEVATION: asymmetrical fenestration with mansard roof.
Lying-pane glazing pattern in timber sash and case windows to ground, 1st floor windows blocked. Graded grey slates. Coped ashlar stacks and ashlar-coped skews with moulded skewputts; square-section gutters with decorative brackets and cast-iron downpipes with decorative fixings.
INTERIOR: ground floor modern; 1st floor not seen 1997.
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