7 Broomhill Road, Burntisland

7 Broomhill Road, Burntisland

A linked pair of semi-detached houses designed by F T Pilkington and dated 1858. The buildings are two storeys with attic accommodation, rising to crowstepped gables. They are executed in the Free Gothic style with detailed architectural ornament throughout.

The construction is stugged ashlar with polychrome detail and long and short quoins. The base course is raked, with band courses running across the facades. The eaves cornice is dentilled, and windowhead cornices are mutuled. Window and door openings feature architraved surrounds with pointed arches, tri-lobed and shouldered designs. A continuous polychrome hoodmould runs above the openings. Stone mullions have chamfered arrises throughout.

South Elevation

Number 6 features a recessed two-storey entrance porch to the left, containing a wide timber door and plate glass fanlight set within a tri-lobed opening. This is flanked by square columns with diamond detail capitals, above which runs a diamond frieze with a first-floor window below a chevron frieze. The advanced face adjoining Number 7 has a bipartite window at ground level to the left of centre with pointed windowheads and a relieving arch detail. The mullion is a colonnette with moulded base and capital bearing cross decoration. Above this is a pointed window at first-floor level, with a further crowstepped dormer window breaking the eaves. A corbelled angled oriel projects at first-floor level to the left corner, topped by a two-stage turret roof.

Number 7, adjoining Number 6, has an advanced bay to the right of centre covering both floors. The ground floor contains a bipartite window and the first floor a quadripartite window, both with narrow glazed returns. The ground floor has capital moulding to the mullion with flower carving; the first-floor mullions display polychrome colouring. A pointed window rises above in a crowstepped gable.

Numbers 7 and 8 share a recessed linked entrance to the right. A granite column at the centre springs pointed-arch openings from a foliate capital, with a date plaque above. Deep-set timber doors with glazed fanlights serve each house. A tri-lobed bipartite window at first-floor level features a colonnette mullion and chevron frieze.

Number 8, adjoining Number 9, has a piended shallow bow window to the left of centre. The ground floor contains a four-leaf design and the first floor a five-leaf design, with colonnette mullions having moulded bases and decorative capitals at both levels. A crowstepped dormer window breaks the eaves above.

Number 9, adjoining Number 8, displays two pointed windows at ground level flanking a dominant moulded console of a corbelled five-leaf oriel window at first-floor level. This oriel has colonnette mullions and decorated capitals. A round-headed window rises above in a crowstepped gable. A recessed entrance porch to the right contains a granite column (as described above) at the centre, a deep-set timber door with eight-leaf fanlight to the left (blocked to the right), and a tri-lobed bipartite window above with colonnette mullion and chevron frieze.

East Elevation

The adjoining boundary wall on the ground slopes toward the north. An ogee window occupies near the centre of the ground floor.

North Elevation

Numbers 6 and 7 feature a bipartite window to the left and a timber door with a two-leaf letterbox fanlight to the right, with a further window to the outer right over a small basement window. Steps lead up to a wide timber door with plate glass fanlight set in a recessed entrance to the right. Two windows at first-floor level sit below a lean-to dormer window to the left and a pitch-roofed dormer window to the right. Number 7 mirrors this arrangement.

The recessed link between Numbers 7 and 8 contains a single wide arched opening with paired timber doors below a bipartite window.

Numbers 8 and 9 repeat the arrangement of Numbers 6 and 7, with the recessed entrance to Number 9 converted to a single part-glazed door and window.

Windows

Windows throughout are timber sash and case designs with 3-, 4-, 6- and 12-pane glazing and plate glass. The ogee window to the east elevation features leaded and coloured glass design.

Roof and Chimneys

The roofing employs patterned purple slates with terracotta ridge tiles. Ashlar coped skews, crowsteps and skewputts are present, along with coped ashlar chimney stacks.

Interior

Numbers 6, 8 and 9 retain wide timber doors with flanking lights and decorative frames. Timber staircases are present with some decorative cornicing. All houses retain grey marble fireplaces. Number 9 has an interior ogee opening and panelling to the window over a cast-iron fireplace with no stack.

Boundary Walls and Railings

Low coped rubble boundary walls line the south elevation. High coped rubble boundary walls enclose the north, east and west elevations. Decorative cast-iron railings and gates are present throughout.