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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

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Fife
  • Parish Wemyss
  • Former Region Fife
  • Former District Kirkcaldy
  • Former County Fife

Architecture Notes

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.

Site Management (20 April 2011)

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)

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