Brunton Court, High Street, Markinch

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 10/09/1979 Local Authority Fife Planning Authority Fife Burgh Markinch NGR NO 29825 01714 Coordinates 329825, 701714 — Robert Hutchison, 1843-4, converted to flats 1994. Gothic hall church with gabled front. Corbelled and pinnacled ashlar birdcage bellcote. Pinnacled battered buttresses, 2-bay nave with Church Hall adjoining at SW. Dressed ashlar with squared and snecked rubble to sides and rear, droved quoins and base course. Pointed-arch openings, hoodmoulds and chamfered reveals. E ELEVATION: symmetrical. Modern timber door with 2-pane fanlight in 4-centre arched doorway with square hoodmould at centre below battered cill of tall modern traceried window with hoodmould in gablehead, corbel above giving way to open bellcote and flanking crenellation; buttresses to right and left of centre with tall windows (also with modern tracery) flanking and angle buttresses. W ELEVATION: tall window to left of centre with new windows at ground and 1st floor to left and 1st floor right, blind roundel in gablehead and truncated stack (new?) above. Converted hall adjoining at outer right. N ELEVATION: 2 tall windows with new window between at both floors and door to right, further new window at outer right 1st floor. Eaves broken by 2 modern dormer windows. S ELEVATION: 2 tall windows with new window between at both floors and eaves broken by 2 modern dormer windows. Hall adjoining at outer left. Modern traceried windows to E, pivot-opening plate glass glazing elsewhere, all in timber frames. Grey slates. Ashlar coped skews. BOUNDARY WALLS: semicircular-coped rubble boundary walls. — Ecclesiastical building no longer in use as such. The Free Church congregation was formed in 1843 when all but 1 elder followed the dissenting minister Dr Sievewright. Funds for the

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.