Denbeath Miner's Welfare Institute, Institution Street, Denbeath is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 March 1999. Institute, bowling club. 1 related planning application.
Denbeath Miner's Welfare Institute, Institution Street, Denbeath
- WRENN ID
- sombre-moulding-cream
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 March 1999
- Type
- Institute, bowling club
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Denbeath Miner's Welfare Institute, located on Institution Street in Denbeath, was designed by Stewart Tod in 1924 and has had later additions. This two-storey, five-bay building features a piend roof, a pedimented loggia, and a bellcote. The exterior is finished in cement render with raised margins and includes string and eaves courses. Notable architectural elements include a segmental-headed, keystoned doorcase, circular openings, and a round-headed, keystoned arch.
On the southeast elevation, the slightly advanced central bays are adorned with paired and single Doric columns beneath a bipartite window, flanked by wider windows that break the eaves within a broad pediment. The central entrance features a broad recessed doorcase with a two-leaf, part-glazed timber door, and windows in the flanking bays. Each outer bay has a ground-level window and a roundel above, although the left roundel is blocked. A dog-leg stone staircase leads to a keystoned pedestrian gateway, with a blocked window set back to the outer right, while a modern flat-roofed extension is located to the outer left.
The northwest elevation showcases a full-height pilastered and pedimented bay, featuring a stone plaque inscribed with 'MINERS WELFARE INSTITUTE' at the center, a blocked window to the left, and a modern door beneath a canopy to the right. The outer bays have blinded roundels above, with a slightly advanced lower piended bay to the outer left that includes three windows and a small catslide-roofed dormer breaking the eaves at the center. A similar bay on the outer right has a projecting flat-roofed extension.
The northeast elevation is asymmetrical, with an off-center door to the left and a window immediately to the right, a bipartite window to the left, and a slightly projecting bay with a stone forestair to the outer left. A lower pavilion projects to the outer right.
On the southwest elevation, there are three windows in the original pavilion at the center, with a two-storey extension to the right and a single-storey extension to the left.
The windows feature 12-pane, multi-pane, and plate glass glazing patterns in timber sash and case frames. The roofs are swept and covered with orange pantiles, while the rendered stacks have some cans. Decorative cast-iron downpipes with rainwater hoppers are also present.
The interior has been modernized.
Surrounding the property are harled boundary walls raised in brick, with square-section corniced gatepiers, and decorative cast-iron gates and railings leading to the outside stair.
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