A unique and quirky building, immediately opposite the Dunfermline Carnegie Library and Museum, this is a very dominant feature within the Heritage Quarter. A new use, which maximises its location and adjacencies, is essential to its sustainable future.
Built in 1912 as the Parish Council Offices, this building is better known for having been home to the local Registrar of Births Marriages & Deaths. Designed by local architect, Thomas Rutherford, by then the sole partner in Muirhead and Rutherford, this building is described as:
Free Edwardian Baroque with prominent keystones, Doric porch with festooned entrance, broken-bed pediments and oriel windows; curved/canted outer bays to principal (S) elevation. Polished sandstone ashlar. Base course, string course above ground floor, band course to upper floor (except to outer right) and moulded eaves cornice.
Sitting in the town’s Heritage Quarter, immediately opposite the recently-refurbished Carnegie Library and Museum, this building’s relatively sound exterior conceals an interior suffering from much neglect. Damp (of various types) appears to be the main culprit.
Friends of Dunfermline recently gained access to the building and think that it has great potential. We are currently exploring a range of ideas that might be suitable for this site.
Location
(Note: the pointer is fractionally too far west in the above)
Friends of Dunfermline 