Radnor, 30 Commercial Street, Markinch

Radnor is an early 19th century classical house located at 30 Commercial Street in Markinch. It is a two-storey, three-bay building with a rectangular plan and a single-storey wing. The exterior is constructed from squared and coursed sandstone, featuring droved raised quoins and raised margins, along with a base course, eaves course, and a moulded cornice.

The south elevation is symmetrical, with a slightly advanced, pedimented center bay that includes a deep-set flush-panelled door and a fanlight with radial astragals, all framed by a Doric columned doorcase with a fluted frieze and a mutule cornice. This bay also has a Venetian window with fluted columnar mullions and a pediment that features a blind oculus breaking the eaves. The flanking bays contain windows on both the ground and first floors. To the outer right, there is a recessed single-storey wing with two windows.

The west elevation, facing the street, has a slightly advanced two-storey piended block on the right with four regularly placed windows, taller on the first floor, and a broad, shouldered wallhead stack. To the left is a lower bay with a pitched roof that has a window on each floor.

On the east elevation, the advanced gable end of the single-storey wing features a door to the left and an adjacent window to the right, along with a shouldered stack on the two-storey wallhead.

The windows throughout the house are timber sash and case with a 4- and 12-pane glazing pattern. The roof is covered with grey slates, and the chimney stacks are coped ashlar with cans.

Inside, the house retains its original woodwork and plasterwork. The inner hall features a screen door with etched glass and fanlights. There are four principal rooms, each with delicately carved timber fire-surrounds that are all different, including one on the first floor east with a hunting scene. The interior also showcases fine plasterwork cornicing, a Venetian window with pilasters and an arch, and a moulded arch to the first floor west. Doors are fitted with brass locks, and there are panelled shutters and dado rails.

The property is enclosed by coped rubble boundary walls, which are complemented by flat coped cement-rendered gatepiers and decorative cast-iron gates.