Andrew Carnegie Birthplace Memorial Museum

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 12/01/1971 Local Authority Fife Planning Authority Fife Burgh Dunfermline NGR NT 09132 87087 Coordinates 309132, 687087 — Original birthplace (and adjacent cottage), probably late 18th century with alterations; memorial building added by James Shearer, 1925-28. Pair of single storey and attic; single-fronted; mirrored plan; terraced cottages with catslide dormers; orientated N/S along Moodie Street. That to N was Andrew Carnegie's birthplace; the adjacent cottage to S has been converted to museum entrance hall. Single and 2-storey, partly with basement and partly with attic; memorial building adjoins to S via single storey linking passage; main 3-bay hall orientated E/W; 17th century Scottish baronial design with finialled crowstepped gables and pedimented clerestory dormers to main hall. Coursed droved sandstone to principal (W) elevation of original cottages; rubble rear (E) elevation and harled side (N and S) elevations; ashlar dressings. Coursed slightly rockfaced sandstone with lightly droved ashlar dressings to memorial building. Eaves cornice to principle elevation of cottages; architraved openings (apart from dormers) to principle and N elevations. Base course to most of memorial building (apart from E side); eaves band to gabled sections; architraved windows to W side of linking passage. Coped gables throughout. W (MOODIE STREET) ELEVATION: built into sloping ground. Principal elevation of cottages to left. Entrances to central bays; both with 6-panel timber doors and rectangular fanlights with patterned glazing; footscraper recess to left of entrance to No 2 Moodie Street. Window to each of flanking outer bays; (that to right has been rebuilt); catslide dormer above each. Single storey linking passage to main part of memorial building adj

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.