The Parsonage, 32-42 Leven Street, Burntisland

The Parsonage is a two-storey with basement and attic parsonage house, built in 1850-4 by R C Carpenter and later continued by W Slater. It was subdivided in 1972. The building is a rectangular, three-bay design, constructed in a Domestic Gothic style with crowstepped gables and stone gabled dormers. The exterior is of squared and snecked rubble stonework, featuring long and short work quoins, an eaves course, stop-chamfered arrises, and segmental-arched stone-mullioned and transomed bipartite windows.

The north elevation (entrance front) has three pointed arch, full-height panels recessed at both ground and first floor levels. There is a small bipartite window at basement level, with a flight of stone steps leading to a pointed arch doorway with a hoodmould and block label-stops. The doorway contains a timber bipartite door partially blinded with small foils in the tympanum, accompanied by a small quatrefoil opening to the left, and a paired bipartite window to the right. The first floor features bipartite windows to the centre and left, and paired bipartite windows to the right, finishing with a smaller bipartite window in the gablehead.

The south elevation mirrors the north, again with recessed panels. Steps lead to a basement door, flanked by bipartite windows. The ground floor has a central bipartite window, a paired bipartite window in the left bay, and a quadripartite window in the right bay, with corbelling supporting a balcony with decorative cast-iron railings. The first floor has bipartite windows in the centre and left bays, with a paired bipartite window and balcony in the right bay. A small quatrefoil-glazed oculus is positioned centrally in the gablehead, above which are two small windows at the wallhead.

The east elevation displays small windows at basement level and bipartite windows with quatrefoil-glazed oculi at ground and first floor levels. Crowstepped gabled dormers are situated above.

The west elevation shows evidence of blocked openings at basement level and features blinded tripartite windows on the ground floor, with a smaller window adjacent to the left. A bipartite window and a quatrefoil opening are positioned centrally on the first floor. The wallhead is punctuated by three gabled dormers.

The windows are timber-framed. Most windows have two-pane lights above transoms with plate glass lower glazing; the basement windows incorporate plate glass in sash and case construction. The roof is covered in red and grey slates. Architectural details include coped ashlar stacks with cans, ashlar crowsteps, and cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers.

The property is enclosed by coped random rubble boundary walls, with iron spearhead railings to the basement recess.