4 St Mary's Place, St Andrews

4 St Mary's Place in St Andrews is a two-storey, three-bay gabled house designed by George Rae in 1861. The building features a prominent porch and carved parapets, constructed from ashlar stone with squared and snecked rubble at the rear, and ashlar dressings. A dividing course includes a hoodmould, frieze, and eaves cornice. Architectural details include a round-headed keystoned door, a traceried window, architraved gablehead windows, and moulded windowheads, along with chamfered arrises and stone mullions.

On the north elevation, there is an advanced gabled bay to the right of the centre, which has a slightly projecting full-height canted window with a blind panel in a raised centre hoodmould on the ground floor, and a raised centre carved parapet on the first floor. A small hoodmoulded window is located in the gablehead. To the left, there is a pilastered porch in the re-entrant angle, featuring decorative capitals and a keystone, a deep frieze, and a cornice that leads to a coped parapet with angle dies. The porch has a two-leaf panelled timber door with a semicircular fanlight, and a round-headed traceried window on the left return. There is a single window on the first floor and a small, steeply-pitched timber dormer window slightly to the left above. The outer left bay also has a slightly advanced full-height gable, with a bipartite window on each floor; the ground floor window has a blind panel above it, while the first floor window features a bracketed cornice leading to a tiny round-headed window in the finialled gablehead.

The southeast elevation has an M-gabled design, with the left gable slightly advanced. The right gable includes three windows on each floor and an additional window in the gablehead. The ground floor of the left gable has been altered to include a broad glazed doorway, with two windows on the first floor and another window in the gablehead.

The east elevation has gabled outer bays, with the right bay being blank, flanking a narrow central bay that features multi-pane leaded glazing in the stair window. The windows throughout the building include 4-pane, 6-pane, 12-pane, and plate glass patterns in timber sash and case frames. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are coped ashlar stacks with cans, ashlar-coped skews with moulded skewputts and stone finials. Decorative bargeboarding adorns the dormer window, and there are cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers.