East Bridge, East Bridge Flour Mills, The Path, Kirkcaldy

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 28/01/1971 Local Authority Fife Planning Authority Fife Burgh Kirkcaldy NGR NT 28538 92338 Coordinates 328538, 692338 — 1793. 2-storey with basement and attic, 3-bay classical office/house with later 19th century bridge wing. Ashlar with squared rubble to sides and rear, random rubble extension; ashlar long and short quoins, some droved. Ground floor cill course, mutuled eaves cornice, plain eaves cornice and blocking course to wing. Voussoired segmental- and round-headed openings, pediment, hoodmoulds, keystones and stone mullions. S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: slightly advanced centre bay with steps up to deep-set panelled timber door, adjacent flanking small pane lights and sunburst-astragalled segmental fanlight; Roman Doric-columned Venetian windows in flanking bays; regular fenestration to 1st floor and centre pediment breaking eaves; 3-part timber dormer windows over outer bays and rooflight to centre. Bay to outer left with single storey bridge wing on cast-iron beams, segmental-headed tripartite window and clock in blocking course. N ELEVATION: variety of elements including single storey extension projecting at ground and 2 windows to 1st floor. W ELEVATION: small window to left in gablehead over wing, broad gablehead stack. Small-pane glazing patterns in timber sash and case windows, casement(?) windows to dormers. Grey slates. Coped ashlar stacks and ashlar-coped skews with scroll skewputts and thackstanes; cast-iron downpipes and decorative rainwater hoppers. INTERIOR: panelled soffits, dado rails, decorative plasterwork cornices and centres. Cantilevred stone stair; classically detailed timber, and cast-iron fireplaces. FORMER HORSEMILL: harled and slated circular horsemill to W of office and incorporated into harled mill buildings to N. St

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.