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West Wemyss, Belvedere Hotel
Colliery Institute (20th Century), Hotel (20th Century)
Site Name West Wemyss, Belvedere Hotel
Classification Colliery Institute (20th Century), Hotel (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Miners Welfare Institute
Canmore ID 222997
Site Number NT39SW 84
NGR NT 32462 94689
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/222997
- Council Fife
- Parish Wemyss
- Former Region Fife
- Former District Kirkcaldy
- Former County Fife
NT39SW 84.00 NT 32462 94689 Belvedere Hotel
NT39SW 84.01 NT 32499 94664 5 - 6 Coxstool
NT39SW 84.02 NT 32489 94666 7 Coxstool
NT39SW 84.03 NT 32484 94679 1 Coxstool
NT39SW 84.04 NT 32480 94666 8 Coxstool
NT39SW 84.04 NT 32486 94673 2 and 11 Coxstool
NT39SW 84.04 NT 32476 94665 9 Coxstool
All buildings now part of Belvedere Hotel.
2-storey, T-plan former Miners Welfare Institute with Doric-columned loggia (now filled), shaped gables and diminutive belvedere converted to hotel accommodation 1986. Harled with stone margins. String and eaves courses.
Built and used as a Miners' Welfare Institute until 1952, the building was finally purchased by the Wemyss Development Company in 1978. From then until 1986 the Institute and the Coxstool houses were converted to the Belvedere Hotel. The stone balustrade was saved from the now demolished Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.(Historic Scotland)
