Electricity Substation, Abbotshall Road, Kirkcaldy is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 January 1971. Lodge, gateway. 1 related planning application.
Electricity Substation, Abbotshall Road, Kirkcaldy
- WRENN ID
- quiet-truss-crow
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 January 1971
- Type
- Lodge, gateway
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
James Playfair, 1786. Single storey, slated bow-ended classical lodge house and gateway. Dressed ashlar with droved quoins. Base course, eaves cornice and blocking course. Round-headed door and voussoirs.
LODGE HOUSE:
SE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: entrance in recessed bay at centre; doorpiece in round-arched recess with panelled timber door and radial-astragalled fanlight.
SW AND NE: bowed with 3 windows (all blocked) over ashlar aprons.
NW ELEVATION: blocked to centre but pilasters remain.
GATEWAY AND GATES: ashlar gatepiers and coursed rubble screen walls with moulded ashlar coping and ashlar dressings.
SW ELEVATION: carriage entrance to centre with pyramidal-coped, square-section ashlar gatepiers and flanking walls; round-headed pedestrian arches with flanking engaged ashlar piers beyond and quadrant walls to outer angles with further ashlar piers. Semicircular-coped rubble walls extend to N and W (see Notes).
GATES: early 19th century, decorative wrought-iron gates to each opening.
Detailed Attributes
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