Technical School, Kirkcaldy High School, St Brycedale Avenue, Kirkcaldy is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 February 1997. Educational building. 6 related planning applications.
Technical School, Kirkcaldy High School, St Brycedale Avenue, Kirkcaldy
- WRENN ID
- dusted-buttress-hemlock
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 27 February 1997
- Type
- Educational building
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Technical School at Kirkcaldy High School, located on St Brycedale Avenue, was designed by William Williamson and built between 1926 and 1928, with a tower added in 1966 that is not included in the listing. This is a three-storey, 24-bay educational building in an austere classical style, featuring pyramidal-roofed corner towers at the southeast and southwest, and generous window openings. The structure is made of ashlar stone with channelled quoins, and includes a base course, moulded cill courses on the ground and second floors, and an eaves course with a cornice and stepped blocking course at the towers. The windows in the towers are framed with architraves.
On the south elevation, there are 18 bays in the center with windows and dividing pilasters on the ground and first floors. The second floor, set back slightly, features decorative railings and regular fenestration, topped by a stepped block pediment over the four central bays. The outer bays have slightly advanced towers, each with three windows per floor.
The west elevation, facing Gow Crescent, has 19 bays arranged in a pattern of 3-12-1-3. The central 12 bays are symmetrical, with channelled dividing piers on the ground floor. There is a slightly advanced stair tower on the right, with a wide entrance to the left and a pedestrian door to the right at ground level, above which is a 10-part transomed and mullioned glazed wall. The outer right features an advanced tower with three ground-floor windows, while the outer left has three slightly advanced bays, each with three windows per floor, along with a blocking course and channelled quoin strips that mirror the tower on the right.
The east elevation, facing Carlyle Road, was originally a mirror of the west elevation but now has modern glazing on the second floor and a link to the 1966 tower on the right.
The north elevation, facing Sang Road, is largely obscured by a later building to the north, but the piended towers are visible at the outer bays.
The building features vertical windows with three-pane glazing, with the central window being a pivot opening. The interior is modernized, but the stair towers still retain cast-iron balusters with timber handrails.
The boundary walls and railings consist of low saddleback-coped ashlar walls with inset railings.
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- No EPC on record for this property
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- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
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