Carlow Memorial Hall, Durie Street, Leven is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 September 1999. Church hall.

Carlow Memorial Hall, Durie Street, Leven

WRENN ID
over-cupola-myrtle
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
28 September 1999
Type
Church hall
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

A D Haxton, 1925. Single storey, 4-bay, rectangular-plan gothic church hall with gabled porch. Stugged squared and snecked rubble with ashlar dressings. Raised base course and eaves course. Pointed-arch openings; tracery and hoodmoulds with label stops. 3-stage battered saw-tooth coped buttresses. Voussoirs; raked cills, chamfered reveals and stone mullions.

NW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: low full-width porch, centre bay with gabled and buttressed, deeply moulded doorcase with nookshafts and mask-stops, and 2-leaf panelled timber door with 5-light decoratively-astragalled small-pane fanlight; square-headed narrow flanking lights and tri-lobed hoodmoulded windows to outer bays. Large hoodmoulded window with curvilinear tracery to higher set-back finialled gable of hall.

NE ELEVATION: traceried 2-light window with dividing buttresses to each of 4 bays.

SW ELEVATION: lower gable of porch with arrow slit to outer left, traceried 2-light windows with dividing buttresses in bays to centre and left; modern lean-to extension to right.

SE ELEVATION: harled, gabled elevation with projecting piended roof of 'apse' below small pedimented former belfry? projecting from gablehead.

Multi-pane leaded glazing with decoratively-astragalled margins and tracery. Grey slates. Ashlar-coped skews with gablet skewputts and cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers.

INTERIOR: good decorative scheme in place including panelled and boarded dadoes, moulded cornices and part-glazed panelled timber doors. Hammerbeam roof and pointed 'apsidal' arch to SE dais.

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