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

THORNTON, MAIN STREET AND CHEWTON ROAD, THE CLOCK SHOPLB42996

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
C
Date Added
01/03/1996
Local Authority
Fife
Planning Authority
Fife
Parish
Markinch
NGR
NT 28905 97655
Coordinates
328905, 697655

Description

1897, builder Mr Wood. Single storey, piend roofed shop on corner site and closing irregular terrace. Dominant timber clock tower. Squared and snecked, dressed rubble with dry dash and stone margins. Base course. Timber mullions and mock timber framing to gableheads.

CLOCK TOWER: 2 stage, black and white clock tower with raked slate plinth straddling lower roof pitch to E, timber dividing courses and corner strips. 1st stage with clock to each face. 2nd stage louvred with finialled timber gablet also to each face.

E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 2 leaf timber door in gabled, finialled doorway to right in chamfered corner. Projecting rectangular display window with finialled gablehead.

6 pane glazing pattern over plate glass glazing in fixed timber display windows. Grey slates. Overhanging eaves, decorative terracotta ridge tiles and finials.

INTERIOR: inner door glazed with decorative astragals and plate glass fanlight.

Statement of Special Interest

The clock tower was a gift from Mr Waldegrave Leslie of Leslie House to commemorate Queen Victoria?s Jubilee of 1897. In 1907 the shop belonged to Mr A Beath, chemist.

References

Bibliography

Andrew S Cunningham MARKINCH AND ITS ENVIRONS (1907). R Lamont Brown DISCOVERING FIFE (1988), p82. Gifford FIFE (1991), p418.

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)

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