Easterheughs
Easterheughs is a villa near the Scottish town of Burntisland in the Council Area Fife . In 2004, the building was included as an individual monument in the Scottish list of monuments in the highest monument category A.
history
William Thomas was employed as manager of the Burntisland Aluminum Works . He also built and repaired harpsichords and clavichords . From the 1930s Thomas lived at Rossend Castle in Burntisland. He bought the property for Easterheughs in 1946. Thomas had no knowledge of architecture, but nevertheless decided to plan and build the villa himself. The ground was first leveled by hand and then the house was built from the inside out. Quarry stone and natural stone surrounds from abandoned buildings were reused, such as Otterson Castle . Old railway sleepers were reused for the roof structure, while the roof tiles come from the closed whiskey distillery Auchtertool . In the mid-1950s, the exterior work was completed and the interior work was carried out. Until Thomas' death in 1989, the work was not fully completed. The Scottish painter Jack Vettriano lived in Easterheughs in the late 1990s .
description
Easterheughs is isolated between the A921 and the north bank of the Firth of Forth, about halfway between Aberdour and Burntisland. It is designed in the style of a late medieval tower house . The arched entrance portal of the asymmetrically constructed building with an L-shaped floor plan is located at the foot of the stair tower protruding slightly from the facade in the inner corner. The wooden portal closes with a round arched window . Another stair tower emerges from the west facade. The steep gable roofs covered with tiles and designed with simple stepped gables . The chimney is gable .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
Web links
- Entry on Easterheughs in Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland's database
Coordinates: 56 ° 3 ′ 36.5 " N , 3 ° 16 ′ 11.2" W.