Listed Building

The only legal part of the listing under the Planning (Listing Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 is the address/name of site. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing – see 'About Listed Buildings' below for more information. The further details below the 'Address/Name of Site' are provided for information purposes only.

Address/Name of Site

25 CANMORE STREETLB25985

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
12/01/1971
Local Authority
Fife
Planning Authority
Fife
Burgh
Dunfermline
NGR
NT 09197 87338
Coordinates
309197, 687338

Description

Circa 1860. 2-storey and basement; 3-bay; rectangular-plan detached villa (now offices). Classical design with pilastered porch and corniced windows to ground floor of principle (N) elevation. Polished ashlar principle elevation; coursed rough-dressed sandstone with ashlar dressings elsewhere. Base course to ground floor; eaves cornice. Architraved windows. V-jointed angle quoins to main block.

N (PRINCIPLE) ELEVATION: entrance with 8-panel timber door in moulded surround to central porch; pilasters at angles support entablature with dentilled cornice; narrow round-arched window to left and right returns. Window above and one to either side to ground and 1st floors; all with moulded architraves; those to 1st floor are lugged.

E ELEVATION: blank.

W ELEVATION: architraved centrance to centre; 6-panel timber door. Narrow window immediately to left. Round-arched window above.

Mainly 10-pane timber sash and case windows with lying pane windows. Grey slate piended roof. Corniced wallhead stack with flanking outer flues distinguished to either side (E and W); octagonal/round cans.

INTERIOR: not inspected (1998).

Statement of Special Interest

Two blocked entrances in the cellars of No 1 Canmore Street are thought to lead to a buried medieval passageway, or vennel, which may extend in an easterly direction as far as No 29 Canmore Street. Little detailed evidence is currently available, but there may be two distinct underground areas, known as 'Between the Wa's' and 'The King's Sewer'. The structure is understood to follow a course which lies underneath the properties at Nos 1, 7, 25, 27 and 29 Canmore Street (see separate listings). There is also a stretch of abbey precinct wall (between Nos 21 and 25 Canmore Street) which is a scheduled monument.

List description updated June 2010.

References

Bibliography

Does not apear on 1856 ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP, 5FT to 1 Mile, Dunfermline Sheet 4; appears on 1896 ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP, 1/2500, FIFE Sheet XXXIX.5.

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

Listed building records provide an indication of the special architectural or historic interest of the listed building which has been identified by its statutory address. The description and additional information provided are supplementary and have no legal weight.

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