I’ve posted quite a few photos of Dysart before, but never one of the front of the harbourmaster’s house. I’ve been meaning to get along the coast to Dysart since I read Anna Buchan’s (O.Douglas) autobiography – Unforgettable, Unforgotten. Actually it isn’t so much an autobiography as a history of the Buchan family and their childhood. I had been wondering which Fife harbourmaster’s house she had used as a model for the house in her book The Proper Place. The description sounded like Dysart to me and sure enough she mentioned that it was indeed the house at Dysart she had been writing about. It has the delicious address of Hot Pot Wynd and sits right at the bottom of a steep hill, just as she described it. It was built in the 18th century. It looks like two houses to me though, I’m not sure if the left hand side is still a private home or is part of the coastal centre and bistro.
Despite the fact that the smell of coffee emanating from it this afternoon was very enticing we didn’t succumb to it because there were hordes of people going in, I had a difficult time getting photos sans folks. I remarked to Jack that it must resemble the Tardis inside because nobody came out. We decided to leave coffee for an afternoon during the week when I imagine it’ll be less heaving with humanity.
This is a back view of the house, I think that from the top of it you should get a reasonable view over to Edinburgh. Hopefully I’ll find out for sure soon.
One of my favourite coffee stops, Katrina. There aren’t very many tables but nobody ever seems to be left standing, and the view over the inner harbour is lovely. Your weather in Fife looks as if it were better than here in Edinburgh where there were snow flurries most of the day.
Linda,
Maybe people look around the coastal centre part of it until they can get a seat! I hope they do good cakes. I couldn’t believe how busy it was. We haven’t had any snow flurries for about 4 or 5 days now and it almost seemed like spring today, until you look over the Forth to Edinburgh – there’s snow on tham thar hills!
It’s so gorgeous! I can just see Nicole at the window looking out on the harbour! I love the stones it’s made of.
Peggy Ann,
I think that’s just ordinary sandstone, the same as our place is built with. That’ll be somewhere you definitely want to visit.
I would never have guessed there were tons of people inside – it looks so lonely and isolated in your photo!
Anbolyn,
I can’t imagine what it was like inside, so we’ll be going soon, to sample the coffee and cake – stand by for a cake photo!