Kinkell is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 November 1998. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

Kinkell

WRENN ID
drifting-pilaster-primrose
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
10 November 1998
Type
Farmhouse
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

Mid 19th century, incorporating earlier fabric. 2-storey, 2-bay, L-plan part crowstepped farmhouse. Squared and snecked and random rubble (infilled with lined render) with stugged ashlar dressings. Base and eaves courses. Roll-moulded, basket-arched doorway in pedimented porch. Stone mullions.

S ELEVATION: ground floor with 2 canted tripartite windows and 1st floor with 2 bipartite windows breaking eaves into pedimented dormerheads.

E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: rambling 3-bay elevation with original gabled farmhouse to centre bay with 2 windows to ground and further window to right at 1st floor. Bay to left of centre with window and finialled pediment in single storey porch projecting to right, 2-leaf panelled timber door and plate glass fanlight on return to left; window to outer right at 1st floor. Bay to right of centre with piended single storey wing at ground and narrow window to left; 2 1st floor windows behind breaking eaves into bolection-moulded pedimented dormerheads.

W ELEVATION: bay to right of centre with modern to door to left at ground and window above, shouldered wallhead stack to centre; gabled bay to left with crowstepped left pitch, door to right and window above.

N ELEVATION: advanced bay to left of centre with ancillary building (see below) below broad wallhead stack. Asymmetrical fenestration on return to right and recessed face to right of centre.

4-, 6-, 15-pane and plate glass glazing patterns to timber sash and case windows. Grey slates. Coped ashlar stacks (some shouldered) with some polygonal cans and thackstanes. Ashlar-coped skews with moulded skewputts, and cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers and fixings.

INTERIOR: some decorative plasterwork cornicing; staircase and landings with barley-twist cast-iron balusters with timber handrail; classically-detailed carved timber fireplaces installed 1960s.

ANCILLARY BUILDINGS: slated, piend-roofed, squared and snecked rubble ancillary adjoining house to N; 3 windows and 2 broad sliding timber doors to N elevation. Small, rectangular-plan rubble ancillary with pantiles and slate eaves easing course.

BOUNDARY WALLS, GATEPIERS AND GATES: semicircular-coped rubble boundary walls with pyramidal-coped, square-section ashlar gatepiers and hooped ironwork gates.

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