Crail, Marketgate. View from south west.

Description Crail, Marketgate. View from south west.

Date c. 1890

Collection Papers of Erskine Beveridge, antiquarian, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 739300

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of F 1934

Scope and Content Nos 42- 44 Marketgate, Crail, Fife Marketgate, a broad thoroughfare that runs parallel to the shore, is one of Crail's oldest streets, and once formed one of the largest medieval market-places in Europe. The south side contains 18th-century vernacular houses which were photographed by the Scottish photographer, Erskine Beveridge, on a visit to Crail c.1890. Nos 42-4 Marketgate, a tall house divided into upper and lower flats, dates from the early 18th century. It is built to a T-plan, with a pantiled roof, and a crowstepped gable with a chimney at the apex to the street. The walls are harled over rough rubble, with painted margins round the windows, and the roof is pantiled, with the lower part or eaves course roofed with slates. A forestair in the west re-entrant angle leads to the upper flat of the house. This house shows many Scottish architectural features typical of the early 18th century, including the steeply pitched pantiled roof, the crowstepped gable, the margins or dressed stones around the windows, and the forestair which gives access to the upper part of the house. The sliding sash-and-case windows (well established by the 18th century) have small glazed panes or astragals which make a neat contribution to the frontage. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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