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Summary

Description

Later-late 19th century, incorporating decorative architectural fragments. 2-storey and attic L-plan building, former school, now 4 flats. Tooled rubble; ashlar margins, eaves course and quoins. Chamfered window surrounds to NW; chamfered door surrounds to SW.

NW ELEVATION: gable to left; base course. Central bipartite ground floor and 1st floor window; louvred attic opening; curvilinear pediment with flanking scrolls and fleur-de-lis in tympanum and finial. Consoles to gable. Wing set back to right. Door to left; narrow fanlight; moulded pediment inserted above; flanking scrolls; quatrefoil finial; initials WS BG in tympanum, dated 1612 below. 3 ground floor windows to right of door. 2 1st floor dormer windows; (bipartite to left). Single storey piended extension set back to far right; door to left; window to right.

NE ELEVATION: 2 ground floor windows to left; bipartite window to right; blocked door to far right. 1st floor dormer window to left; possible blocked door to left. Tripartite dormer window to right.

SE ELEVATION: 4 ground floor windows; bipartite dormer window to left; 2 dormer windows to right. Gable to far right; ground floor window to left; bipartite window to right. 2 1st floor windows; central attic window. Single storey extension to far left; plain elevation.

SW ELEVATION: gable end to right; central ground floor window; 2 inserted pediments at 1st floor; triangular decoration to left pediment; scrolls to right. Central attic ventilation slit. Single storey extension advanced to right; central window. Section set back to left; 2 doors; bipartite dormer window above.

2-leaf panelled door to flat 1C; replacement doors elsewhere. 2-leaf timber sash and case windows with horns. Rooflights to single storey extension. Pitched slate roofs; piended dormers and single storey extension. Timber bargeboard to NW gable; ashlar coping to SW gable. Corniced able apex stack to NW; coped gable apex stack to SW; replacement gable apex stack to SE; wallhead stack to SE; circular cans.

INTERIOR: modernised interiors.

OUTHOUSE AND GARDEN WALL

Lean-to SE; exposed rubble walls; door in NE; window to SE; tooled quoins; slight chamfer to NE quoin; slate roof. Rubble garden wall; ashlar coping stones bounds garden to SE.

Statement of Special Interest

Formerly listed as House (N Seath, J Fotheringham, Miss F Scotland, Beveridge) Low Causeway, South Side, East of Sandhaven House. The building depicted on the 1860 map is of a different shape to the present building and was probably replaced or altered to create 1C-4C Sandhaven. This building is said to have been the Penny School, which may be the Old Parochial School mentioned by Cunningham. In 1896, the school merged with Janet Davidson's school (which had been built to replace the Geddes School). The building was later turned into a house and then into flats in the 1960's by the council. The inserted pediments on the SW elevation, which are similar to those at Culross Palace, possibly come from the earlier building. The pediment on the NW gable is similar to those at West Green, The House and the Palace. The garden wall was part of the sea wall which extends southeast and north-eastwards bounding the gardens of the adjacent houses. Prior to the reclamation of the Sandhaven in the late 19th century, the Firth of Forth extended up to this point.

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