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Corriemar
Dower House (19th Century)
Site Name Corriemar
Classification Dower House (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Dower House; Silverburn House Estate
Canmore ID 31339
Site Number NO30SE 25
NGR NO 39164 01898
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/31339
- Council Fife
- Parish Scoonie (Kirkcaldy)
- Former Region Fife
- Former District Kirkcaldy
- Former County Fife
NO30SE 25 39164 01898
See also:
NO30SE 24.00 NO 39347 02074 Silverburn House
NO30SE 26 NO 3909 0211 Corrieburn Lodge
2-storey, 3-bay house. Harled with ashlar quoin strips and margins. Base course and eaves cornice. 1st floor windows with gabled dormerheads as open base pediments and central pendant braces with finials. Stop-chamfered arrises and stone mullions. All windows blocked. Grey slates. Cornices rendered end stacks with some polygonal cans. Plain bargeboarding and overhanging eaves, cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers.
Corriemar is thought to have been the dower house for nearby Silverburn House. In 1973 Major Russell gifted the Silverburn Estate to Leven Town Council and the National Trust for Scotland. Both houses were used for day patients from Stratheden Hospital until 1970. Style of Peddie & Kinnear, architects. (Historic Scotland)
