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Pittenweem, 23 High Street, Kellie Lodging
House (16th Century), Term Pending
Site Name Pittenweem, 23 High Street, Kellie Lodging
Classification House (16th Century), Term Pending
Alternative Name(s) Kelly Lodge
Canmore ID 34283
Site Number NO50SW 9
NGR NO 54833 02557
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/34283
- Council Fife
- Parish Pittenweem
- Former Region Fife
- Former District North East Fife
- Former County Fife
NO50SW 9 54833 02557
23 High Street, Pittenweem: This late 16th century house stands on the N side of the street. It is rubble-built and consists of a three-storeyed main block with a wing projecting to the street. The wall head of this main block was raised in the 17th century and the windows have been enlarged. The upper part of the wing oversails on a heavy moulded corbel course similar to that on the E tower of Kellie Castle.
RCAHMS 1933, visited 1927
Kelly Lodge, the town residence of the Earls of Kelly, is still distinguished by its 16th century turret and staircase. The projecting tower is older than the house. It is possible that the oldest part of Kellie (sic) Lodge was built by the Oliphants of Kellie and that additions were made by Sir Thomas Erskine who was created Earl of Kellie in 1619. (The Oliphants possessed Kellie from 1360 to 1613.)
D MacGibbon and T Ross 1892; A H Millar 1895
NO 5484 0255. This house, as described, was restored by the National Trust for Scotland from 1968-71.
Visited by OS (DWR) 30 May 1974
NO50SW 9 54833 02557
NMRS Print Room
Falkland, High Street, Key House & St Andrew House
Seen from upstairs, across the road
W Schomberg Scott Photograph Collection
Acc No 1997/39
Field Visit (20 July 1927)
House, 23 High Street, Pittenweem.
This late 16th-century house (Fig. 361) stands on the north side of the High Street. It is rubble-built, and consists of an oblong three-storeyed main block with a wing projecting to the street and containing a turnpike in the lower part. The wall-head of the main block was raised in the 17th century, and the windows have been enlarged. The southern angles of the wing are chamfered off, and its upper part, which comprises two chambers entered from a turret-stair corbelled out in the western re-entrant angle, oversails on a heavy moulded corbel-course, not unlike that on the east tower of Kellie Castle [NO50NW 4]. The windows are small and have margins moulded like certain windows at Kellie and at Balcomie Castle [NO60NW 4]. The gables are crow-stepped. The entrance, a moulded doorpiece, lies at the stair-foot. One room on the first floor is panelled in Memel pine.
RCAHMS 1933, visited 20 July 1927.
