Sutlery Building with Shop and Post Office, 8-20 Rocks Road, Charlestown

Heritage listing

Category B Group Category Details 100000019 - see notes Date Added 31/12/1971 Supplementary Information Updated 11/03/2016 Local Authority Fife Planning Authority Fife Parish Dunfermline NGR NT 06583 83781 Coordinates 306583, 683781 — 1770. 3-storey; 5-bay, symmetrical, rectangular-plan former granary and cart shed. Pedimented central section; 5 partially blocked ground floor arches; exposed sandstone; harled at rear with 3 pink band courses; ashlar surrounds to openings. Eaves course to front; raised gable wallheads. Wall mounted letterbox to principal elevation; earlier-mid 20th century; cast iron. WEST (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: central door and 2 flanking windows inserted into blocked up arched openings. Door in each outer bay. 5 1st floor windows and 2nd floor granary openings including central hoist door centred above; extra 1st floor window between 1st and 2nd bays to left. Gabled pediment above central 3 bays; central corniced stack with diamond decoration (former base for bell). Niche with fitting for bell pull above left of central door. Letterbox to right of far left ground floor window; Post Office legend to mouth hood; door below with G VI R and crown decoration. SOUTH ELEVATION: replacement central steps and porch leading to 1st floor accommodation. Flanking 1st floor windows; 2 blind 2nd floor windows centred above; central blind round-headed 2nd floor windows. Raised flat gablehead with diamond decoration; corniced chimney stacks at either end; circular cans. EAST ELEVATION: 2 doors with flanking windows. 1st floor windows and 2nd floor granary openings centred above ground floor windows and right hand door; additional ground floor window to right of right door and 1st floor window between 2nd and 3rd bays. NORTH ELEVATION: partially seen, 2000; 1st floor do

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.