Front section of former office block of Victoria Works, Pilmuir Street, Dunfermline

The front section of the former Victoria Works on Pilmuir Street in Dunfermline is a two-storey office building of 1876, designed by the Dundee-based architectural firm Robertson and Orchar. It comprises five bays to the main frontage with two-bay side returns, executed in Italianate style.

The building is constructed in a mixture of chamfered and plain sandstone blocks. The ground floor employs rusticated stone whilst the first floor is built in ashlar block, the two storeys separated by a prominent projecting string course. The three central bays are slightly advanced.

The large central doorpiece features double flanking pilasters topped by carved decorative brackets. The door itself is a timber replacement, flanked by narrow two-paned lights and a semi-circular fanlight. Above the entrance is a tripartite window with engaged Corinthian pilasters and columns, surmounted by a small square balcony with moulded stone balustrade. The first floor pilastered windows are topped by alternating triangular and arched open pediments on decorative brackets. A prominent deep dentilled cornice runs below the eaves.

The windows throughout are replacement two-pane timber sash and case; those at ground floor level are fitted with arched fixed lights above. The roof is hipped and has been reslated, with two chimneystacks abutting to the rear.

The building formed the central office block of the Victoria Works, originally built in 1876 as a steam-powered linen damask mill for Inglis and Company. The wider site, extending from Grants Bank Street (now Pilmuir Street) to Hill Street, eventually contained weaving sheds, an engine house, chimney stack, boiler house and ancillary buildings. The mill closed as a weaving factory between 1926 and 1928, reopening in 1928 as an embroidery works for Wilson and Wightman. By the early 20th century, the Victoria Works had switched to viscose production. The site was purchased by Glazin and Berry in 1965 and by Castleblair Limited around 1990 as a storage facility. It was sold for redevelopment in the mid-2000s. Since 2006 multiple planning applications have been submitted for partial demolition, alteration and conversion to housing, completed by 2018. The separate engine house at the east end of the site was being converted to housing as of 2019.

The interior and rear of the central office block, adjoining mill buildings (numbers 1-16 Lady Campbells Court) and boundary walls are excluded from the listing.