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Field Visit
Date 1 June 1928 - 5 December 1931
Event ID 1099025
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1099025
Kirkcaldy Houses.
(1) 34 KIRK WYND. Into the wing of this house, towards the street, is inserted a pediment bearing a cartouche surmounted by the initials M.A. and M.L. with the date 1637. The cartouche is parted per pale and bears: dexter, a saltire between two mullets and a crescent in base, for Anderson; and, sinister, a bend, a boar's (?) head couped in sinister chief. The house containing the pediment is modernised.
(2) 227 HIGH STREET. This three-storeyed house is almost entirely modernised. but the entrance has a moulded door-piece dated 1672 on the pediment. On the first floor are two moulded plaster ceilings. The smaller one, which is still complete, has compartments formed by simple moulded ribs. The larger one, which now covers a living room and its adjoining passage and lavatory, all contrived within what has evidently been originally a single large apartment, has ribs modelled in relief with garlands of fruit and flowers, and includes a central panel with a head in relief labelled ALEXANDER. The living-room had been panelled in pine in the early 18th century, and one of the passage walls bears a short stretch of similar panelling.
(3) 165 HIGH STREET. This large four storeyed tenement appears to have been rebuilt in the 18th century and has since been modernised. A pediment, set between the two uppermost central windows, contains a shield dated 1680 and, in later characters, 1722.
(4) MALCOLM'S WYND. Facing the harbour at the corner of Malcolm's Wynd are two contiguous 17th-century houses. Both are built of harled rubble, and each presents a gable of three main storeys to the street. The more easterly has tabled skews with scrolled skew-puts. Two string-courses cross the gable, and there is a corbelled projection at the staircase beside the entrance, which opens from the wynd. One chamber contains traces of an enriched ceiling and a stone panel with the Royal Arms and the date 166(?)2. The western house is derelict. Its gable is crow-stepped and is offset on corbels at the level of the first floor.
(5) ARMORIAL STONE, 20 JAMES GROVE. During the demolition of old Dunnikeir House this stone was found covering a conduit and was then rebuilt for preservation into the top of the back gable at the address given. It was originally part of a pediment and exhibits a shield with a bordure cheeky, parted per pale and bearing: dexter, a chevron between three crosses patty, for Barclay of Touch; and sinister, a chevron between two mullets in chief and what may be a hound in base, but this coat cannot be identified. Above the shield are a mantling and helm, the latter wreathed and having for crest a hand and fore-arm (?). Over all is a label, but any motto this may have. borne is now entirely obliterated.
RCAHMS 1933, visited 1 and 2 June 1928; 5 December 1931.
