Fife’s Art Deco Heritage 7: St Andrews (ii)
Posted in Architecture, Art Deco, Fife at 17:41 on 9 January 2011
On the road leading west out of St Andrews (the B939) there lies this house.
It is flat roofed and shows signs of having had nice deco windows once but they have now been double glazed and look weird.
Further west, at the next junction, the road forks. The B939 goes on to the lovely wee village of Ceres but the other fork – called Strathkiness High Road – has 6 (count them, 6) flat roofed 1930s semi-detached bungalows.
The photos are presented in order west to east. Click on any to enlarge them.
They’re kind of sitting out on a limb as they are a few hundred metres from the rest of the town.
I suppose these could be described as modernist rather than Art Deco since they are quite stark but they do have all those horizontals and verticals which are like a signature. The glazing is of course not original.
Tags: Art Deco, Ceres, St Andrews, Strathkiness
andrew stuart
26 January 2015 at 16:17
I think my Grandparents may have lived in the left house in the first PIC here? They definately in an art Deco style house on Buchanan Gardens.It had been converted into 2 flats at the time. They had the upper floor.
jackdeighton
26 January 2015 at 22:49
Andrew Stuart
Thanks for looking in.
Do you have any other memories of the house?
Andrew Stuart
27 January 2015 at 19:11
I do, it did have lovely art deco windows back then that where painted blue and a lovely veranda at the back. They did move into a Bungalow by the Botanic gardens when I was quite young though. It wasn’t white either it was that brownish harling colour. I also remember all the doors and floors inside where darkish wood and always seemed so shiny.
As I say though it may not have been this exact house but looks like it.
jackdeighton
27 January 2015 at 21:39
Andrew Stuart,
It would be great if those windows are still there.
Andrew Stuart
29 January 2015 at 18:00
It would be Jack but sadly not. 🙁