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

33 EAST PORTLB43886

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
18/02/1997
Local Authority
Fife
Planning Authority
Fife
Burgh
Dunfermline
NGR
NT 09383 87484
Coordinates
309383, 687484

Description

R H Motion, 1938-39; additions to S. 3-storey and basement; 3-bay; rectangular-plan Modern Movement office building and showroom situated on sloping ground. Geometrical design with flat roofs and interlocked cubic forms; single storey showroom projects to principal (N) elevation. Rendered exterior. Low coped parapets to main roofs.

N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical arrangement. Projecting ground floor with recessed central entrance in glazed surround; replacement 2-leaf glazed steel door; large flanking projecting showroom windows canted inwards to entrance (upper tier of each slightly recessed); inlaid floor in between. Roof canted out to centre (in line with entrance) over fascia board; base course to parapet. Narrow central bay with flanking pilasters, set back to 1st and 2nd floors, raised slightly above main parapet; narrow window to each floor. flanking windows to 1st and 2nd floors set within slightly recessed horizontal bands, which wrap around corners of side (E and W) elevations.

W ELEVATION: blank side wall of ground floor showroom extends to left. Roof of main office block stepped down to right in 2 stages; each with slightly overhanging concrete sun terrace (that to right occupying space of top floor). Recessed horizontal bands continued from principal elevation to left of 1st and 2nd floors; single narrow window to right of lower one. Window to each main floor to right. Paired windows to ground and 1st floors to outer right. Irregular openings to basement (mainly blocked).

S ELEVATION: single window to ground and 1st floors to outer left bay; banded steel railings to sun roof above. Separate build projects to right.

E ELEVATION: blank; otherwise similar to W elevation.

Large fixed pane windows to ground floor showroom; mainly steel casements with horizontal glazing bars elsewhere. Flat roofs, probably concrete. Coped wallhead stacks to side (E and W) elevations.

INTERIOR: modernised ground floor showroom.

Statement of Special Interest

A strikingly modernist 1930's design situated on a prominent corner site. The offices were complete by 1938, built for the Fife Electric Power Company, but the showroom had not been fitted out, and was therefore taken over during the Second World War to serve as a surface air raid shelter. The showroom was re-fitted in 1948 for the South East Scotland Electricity Board (the former company as nationalised). The building was taken over by Dunfermline District Council Department of Housing in 1976-77. In 1994 the showroom was converted to offices.

References

Bibliography

BUILDING CONTROL REGISTER, Dean of Guilds Records, Dunfermline Council; J Gifford, FIFE, in the 'Buildings of Scotland' (1988) p193; Bert McEwan, DUNFERMLINE - OUR HERITAGE (1998) pp93-94.

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.

These records are not definitive historical accounts or a complete description of the building(s). If part of a building is not described it does not mean it is not listed. The format of the listed building record has changed over time. Earlier records may be brief and some information will not have been recorded.

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