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| '''Category''' ||B | |||
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| '''Reference / Date''' || LB49305 / 27/06/2003 | |||
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| '''Address/Site N ame''' || Freuchie, Eden Valley Row, Former Eden Valley Linen Works Including Gate Piers And Boundary Walls | |||
Freuchie, Eden Valley Row, Former Eden Valley Linen Works Including Gate Piers And Boundary Walls | |||
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Probably by Robertson & Orchar, circa 1864. 2-storey, 16-bay former linen works. Long, ordered elevation with regular fenestration broken by 2 segmentally arched cart entrances. Squared and snecked stugged sandstone with rusticated ashlar masonry to quoins, arched cart entrance surrounds and vertical margins which define the first and last 3 bays. Flush droved long and short surrounds to windows. Ashlar eaves course and cornice. Further sandstone rubble buildings attached to rear. ... | Probably by Robertson & Orchar, circa 1864. 2-storey, 16-bay former linen works. Long, ordered elevation with regular fenestration broken by 2 segmentally arched cart entrances. Squared and snecked stugged sandstone with rusticated ashlar masonry to quoins, arched cart entrance surrounds and vertical margins which define the first and last 3 bays. Flush droved long and short surrounds to windows. Ashlar eaves course and cornice. Further sandstone rubble buildings attached to rear. ... | ||
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In use as a Linen Works until around the time of the Second World War. Recently used as a mushroom factory. Important as a reminder of the once prominent linen industry in Fife and notable for its little altered principal elevation. ... | In use as a Linen Works until around the time of the Second World War. Recently used as a mushroom factory. Important as a reminder of the once prominent linen industry in Fife and notable for its little altered principal elevation. ... | ||
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'''Eden Valley Linen Works''' is a former linen factory in [[Eden Valley Row]], Freuchie, now converted to residential accommodation. | |||
==Previous uses== | |||
Linen works. | |||
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Latest revision as of 07:25, 27 February 2024
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| Name | Eden Valley Linen Works |
| Address | Eden Valley Row, Freuchie |
| Postcode | KY15 7EU |
| Other names | |
| Date | 1864 |
| Architect | Robertson & Orchar |
| OS grid ref | NO 28477 06963 |
| Latitude & longitude | 56°14′59″N 3°09′21″W |
| what3words | ///flown.encoding.digs |
| HES listing details[1] | |
| Category | B |
| Reference / Date | LB49305 / 27/06/2003 |
| Address/Site N ame | Freuchie, Eden Valley Row, Former Eden Valley Linen Works Including Gate Piers And Boundary Walls |
| Description
Probably by Robertson & Orchar, circa 1864. 2-storey, 16-bay former linen works. Long, ordered elevation with regular fenestration broken by 2 segmentally arched cart entrances. Squared and snecked stugged sandstone with rusticated ashlar masonry to quoins, arched cart entrance surrounds and vertical margins which define the first and last 3 bays. Flush droved long and short surrounds to windows. Ashlar eaves course and cornice. Further sandstone rubble buildings attached to rear. ... | |
| Statement of special interest
In use as a Linen Works until around the time of the Second World War. Recently used as a mushroom factory. Important as a reminder of the once prominent linen industry in Fife and notable for its little altered principal elevation. ... | |
Eden Valley Linen Works is a former linen factory in Eden Valley Row, Freuchie, now converted to residential accommodation.
Previous uses
Linen works.
Further references
"... Georgian survival but with rusticated quoins breaking the front into a ten-bay centre and three-bay ends."[2]
"Linen Mill, Eden Valley Row. Unobtrusive symmetrical block, 16 bays long, including two arched cart entries: now warehouse."[3]
Notes
- ↑ HES record for LB49305
- ↑ Gifford, Fife, page 229.
- ↑ Pride, Kingdom of Fife, page 90.