35 Cromwell Road, Burntisland

35 Cromwell Road, Burntisland

An early 20th-century semi-detached pair of houses, substantially altered internally at a later date. The building is a 2-storey structure with a part basement, arranged on a 4-bay plan, situated on ground that falls away to the northwest.

The design is characterised by half-timbered jettied first-floor sections with decorative glazing and chevron designs to the gables, supported by chamfered and angled engaged corner towers. The external finishes comprise bull-faced ashlar, harl, and dry-dash render. The base course is stepped, with partial band and eaves courses, long and short margins, quoin strips, and polished ashlar mullions throughout.

The street-facing south-east elevation is symmetrical, with an ashlar ground floor containing tripartite windows in the bays either side of centre, flanked by quadripartite chamfered windows in the outer bays. The timbered first floor has tripartite windows centrally, with quadripartite windows featuring decorative astragals in the jettied and gabled outer bays, these windows returning around the outer faces. Flat-roofed timber dormer windows sit above the centre bays.

The west corner tower is 6-sided, featuring a harled basement with a part-glazed door, a polished ashlar ground floor and harled first floor, each with 6 windows, and a bell-cast roof topped with a decorative cast-iron finial.

The east corner tower is 3-sided with a battered dry-dashed basement containing 2 narrow windows to the projecting face. The ground floor has polished ashlar with windows to the right and left (on returns) and a bipartite window to the projecting face. A corbelled course supports the harled first floor, which has windows to the right and left (on returns) and a tripartite window to the projecting face, all topped by a piend roof.

The south-west elevation features a harled part-basement to the left of centre with a bipartite window. The ashlar ground floor contains a piend-roofed entrance porch with part glazing and a decorative astragalled tripartite window in the advanced face, a part-glazed door with decorative astragals, flanking lights, and cast-iron columns returning to the right, with a bipartite window on the return to the left, positioned approximately at centre. A further window occupies a bay to the left. The harled first floor has a small bipartite window below a swept roof breaking the eaves at centre, a corbelled stone chimneybreast piercing the gable in a bay to the right, a window to the left with a small pedimented dormer head breaking the eaves, and a flat-roofed bipartite dormer window at centre.

The north-east elevation comprises a dry-dashed part-basement to the right of centre. The ashlar ground floor has a jettied entrance porch and a window in a bay to the right. The dry-dashed first floor contains a small bipartite window at centre, a corbelled stack to the left, a window to the right, and a dormer window detailed as on the south-west elevation, though the door lacks the decorative astragal found elsewhere.

The north-west elevation features advanced outer bays, each with a timber door and adjacent small window towards centre, with recessed centre bays containing an advanced timber-pedimented door at ground floor centre breaking the first floor base line. A jettied and half-timbered lean-to oriel with 2 narrow lights and flanking windows spans the centre bays, with large rooflights set into the recess at first-floor level. Windows occupy the bays to the right and left of centre at second-floor level, with flat-roofed timber dormer windows above.

Windows are predominantly timber sash and case or casement types, with mainly coloured small-pane upper sashes over plate glass in lower sashes. The casement and dormer windows to the south-east elevation and dormers to the north-east and south-west elevations feature 12-pane glazing patterns. The roof is covered in grey slates. Ashlar stacks carry moulded cans and terracotta ridge tiles. Bargeboarding with exposed eaves is detailed throughout.

Boundary walls are constructed as low ashlar coped rubble with square-coped ashlar gatepiers, and terracotta-coped brick boundary walls also feature on the site.