Coul is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 November 1972. Farmhouse.

Coul

WRENN ID
young-column-clover
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
24 November 1972
Type
Farmhouse
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This is an earlier 19th-century farmhouse of two storeys and three bays with a piend roof, built in a classical style. The front (SE) elevation is the most prominent, featuring a slightly projecting centre bay with a pediment. The main entrance is set within a deep doorcase of panelled timber, enriched with decorative fanlight, Doric columns, fluted frieze, and a corniced hood. Above the entrance, a keystoned Venetian window sits at first floor, also incorporating fluted columns and pilasters, a fluted eaves course and a pediment with a glazed oculus. Flanking bays contain windows on both ground and first floors.

The NW elevation includes a low, piend-roofed single-storey extension across the bay to the right of the centre, with two windows. A slightly higher extension is situated across the bay to the left, its piend roof adjoins the main building and gables to the north. A single-storey timber outhouse adjoins to the north. The recessed face has a stair window at the centre and windows to the right and left at first floor (one blinded), with a rooflight centrally placed.

The SW elevation is largely blank, dominated by a broad, curvilinear, shouldered wallhead stack at the centre. The NE elevation has a small ground-floor window to the outer right, again featuring the same stack. A flat-roofed, single-storey extension extends beyond, with a part-glazed timber door and flanking bipartite windows.

The original windows are timber sash and case, with a variety of glazing patterns, including 4, 6, 12, and 16 panes (with panes lying horizontally in the main building), along with fixed plate glass glazing in the oculus. The roof is covered in grey slates. The chimneys are of shouldered ashlar with a cavetto coping, along with a coped brick stack with thackstane and cans. Ashlar coped skews are also present.

The interior, viewed in 1994, includes an inner hall with an arch supported by carved anthemion brackets, fine decorative plasterwork, cornicing, and ceiling roses. An oval staircase has timber balusters and a handrail. The principal rooms on the first floor have moulded, segmental, and basket-arched sideboard arches (one possibly featuring a keystone). The interior of the Venetian window features a depressed arch and fluted pilasters. Dado panelling and working shutters are also present.

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