Braehead House, Nairn's Linoleum Works, Victoria Road, Kirkcaldy

Braehead House is a large, two-storey office block with a partial basement, constructed between 1936 and 1939 to a design by James Millar of Glasgow, with interior work by Whytock and Reid of Edinburgh. It was converted to flats in 1994. The building is an example of International Modern architecture, arranged in an H-plan, with a lower boardroom pavilion to the southwest and a central courtyard.

The exterior is faced with polished ashlar, featuring base and string courses, a decorative cornice, and a blocking course. Some openings are round-headed, with voussoirs and panelled aprons to the north and pilastered bays to the south. The north elevation, the principal facade, has a slightly projecting central bay with a stepped blocking course and flagpole. A panelled timber door is set into a deep-set recess, flanked by dwarf walls and a round-headed stair window with a wrought-iron balustrade. The south elevation features a full-width raised terrace, reached by broad steps with flanking terrace walls and urns. A giant pilastrade underlines the centre nine bays, with the outer bays slightly recessed. The east elevation is symmetrical, with an advanced glazed curtain wall and a wrought-iron balustrade to the first floor of the central five bays. The west elevation is also symmetrical, including a boardroom pavilion and a raised basement with a garage entrance. The boardroom pavilion is a tall, single-storey, piended structure with round-headed openings.

The building has small-pane glazing in iron-framed windows and is finished with red pantiles, ashlar-coped skewbacks and stacks.

The interior features a full-height, ashlar-faced entrance hall with a gallery and an elaborate wrought-iron balustrade, an original lift, and a brass stair balustrade. There is ornate decorative plasterwork and extensive timber panelling to the principal ground floor rooms, designed by Whytock and Reid, including fluted Ionic pilasters, carved fireplaces and doorheads. The superb board room showcases fine plasterwork, fielded timber panelling, elaborate carved detail to cornices, capitals, doorheads, fireplace, overmantel, and window surrounds.

A flat-coped ashlar terrace runs along the south side of the building. Boundary walls are built with corniced, square-coped ashlar gatepiers, decorative wrought-iron gates and inset railings to the north. Similar gatepiers are located to the southeast. Elsewhere, boundary walls are constructed from coped rubble and ashlar with wrought-iron gates.