Harbour Bar, 469-473 High Street, Kirkcaldy

The Harbour Bar, located at 469-473 High Street in Kirkcaldy, is a plain early 19th century burgh tenement that has been rebuilt at ground level to enclose a pend in the early 20th century, prior to 1924. An 18th century outbuilding is also present on the site. The building is constructed of ashlar and painted cement-render, featuring a dentilled cornice and a nearly full-width fascia above the bar that serves as a first-floor cill course, eaves lintel course, and raised margins. It has a roll-moulded doorpiece, stone-mullioned windows, and chamfered arrises at the ground level.

The main entrance features a panelled two-leaf timber door at the center, with a broad tripartite window to the right and a bipartite window to the left, along with an additional door at the outer left. Above, there is a corniced fascia with traditional lettering and cast-iron ship's lamps. The upper floors have regular fenestration, with a smaller window inserted above the door on the first floor and two piended dormers. The fixed windows have toplights and some decorative etching in the bar, while plate glass glazing is used elsewhere, with timber sash and case windows on the first and second floors. The roof is covered with red tiles, and there is a broad cavetto-coped ashlar gablehead stack with cans on the southwest side.

Inside, the bar features a well-detailed interior that includes a panelled vestibule with a narrow two-leaf part-glazed door leading to the rare jug bar. The public bar is located to the right, and the lounge is to the left. The public bar has boarded dadoes and a mahogany mirrored back gantry with fluted pillars and pilasters, along with a hatch that opened to the lounge bar in the mid-20th century. The bar counter has a fluted front, and the lounge bar features a panelled ceiling with decorative plasterwork thistles, roses, and clovers. There are also two tiny hatches from the jug bar to the main bar.

The 18th century outbuilding, which was formerly a sailmaker's loft converted to a brewery, is a single-storey structure that likely has a cellar, known as a laigh floor. It is harled and slated. The property is enclosed by coped rubble boundary walls at the rear.