Swan Memorial Building, 221 High Street, Kirkcaldy

The Swan Memorial Building, located at 221 High Street in Kirkcaldy, was designed by George Washington Browne in 1895 and altered at the ground level in 1930. This building features a mix of three stories and two stories with an attic, showcasing a Flemish Renaissance style. It is situated on a corner site and includes a shop on the ground floor.

The building has a canted corner adorned with a balustrade, a finialled curvilinear gable, and dormerheads. It is constructed from polished red sandstone ashlar, with polished granite used for the ground floor. Notable architectural details include a deep band course, a cavetto cill course on the second floor, and an eaves cornice. The window openings are highlighted by pedimented heads, corbelling, stone transoms, and mullions, with chamfered arrises.

On the south elevation facing High Street, there are two bays above ground. The ground floor features a large display window, while the first floor has two close-spaced transomed bipartite windows set within cusped panels, flanked by narrow rounded pilaster strips that connect to the second floor cill course. The second floor has two close-spaced bipartite windows slightly recessed over the cill course, with an inscription and a blind panel above in the curvilinear gablehead.

The southwest corner elevation has a bowed ground floor with a two-leaf glazed door beneath a deep band course, leading to a canted bay with a three-part window. Above this, there is a further tripartite window on the second floor, topped with a balustrade.

The west elevation, facing Kirk Wynd, is two stories with an attic. It features seven windows on the ground floor divided by piers. The first floor has three tall windows to the left of center and two small bipartite windows to the right, flanking another bipartite window set in a stylised aedicule with a broken pediment and a blind panel in the tympanum. The roof includes three corniced and transomed bipartite dormer windows with finialled curvilinear pediments that break the eaves over the bays to the right of center. A tall corniced stack is positioned adjacent to the dormer window on the outer right.

The building's timber windows exhibit 6- and 10-pane glazing patterns, while the first floor corner and ground level feature plate glass glazing. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are cavetto coped ashlar stacks and ashlar-coped skews. Additionally, cast-iron downpipes and decorative rainwater hoppers enhance the building's exterior.