Arcade Halls To West Of Wemyss Buildings, High Street, Kirkcaldy is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 May 1997. Factory.
Arcade Halls To West Of Wemyss Buildings, High Street, Kirkcaldy
- WRENN ID
- burning-mullion-mint
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 9 May 1997
- Type
- Factory
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
1858 extended circa 1864-72. 3-storey, 12-bay linen factory, bays grouped 5-7, with later shops at ground floor, on ground falling to S. Large blocks of orange sandstone rubble to S and small red rubble to N; ashlar quoins, some dressed. Eaves lintel course. Stone cills.
E (ARCADE) ELEVATION: variety of modern shops at ground with doorway to centre. Regular fenestration above, but bay 9 with wider openings; bays 9 (door) and 12 at 1st floor and bay 12 at 2nd floor all blocked. Quoins to each floor between bays 5 and 6, and shouldered wallhead stack above.
W ELEVATION: regular fenestration with bays 1-7 blocked.
S ELEVATION: dominant gablehead stack with fluted consoles and fielded panel below cavetto cornice and concave-moulded coping.
Small-pane glazing patterns in timber sash and case windows. Graded slates. Coped and shouldered wallhead stack to W, coped stacks to gableheads. Ashlar-coped skews with square skewputts to S.
INTERIOR: not seen 1997.
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