North Primary School And Psychological Services, Prime Gilt Box Street, Kirkcaldy

This is a two-storey, five-bay school building, constructed in 1906 in a Baroque style by D Forbes Smith for boys, girls, and infants. It is located in Kirkcaldy and fronts Prime Gilt Box Street, Matthew Street, Nile Street, and Patterson Street. The building is constructed of bull-faced squared rubble with polished ashlar dressings. A prominent feature is the giant order entrance bays, which are broken-pedimented and pilastered, incorporating a consoled semicircular balcony below a keystoned, round-headed, concave-moulded window with nine lights.

The western (Prime Gilt Box Street) elevation consists of three lower piended bays at the centre. The entrance bay features a deeply set, two-leaf timber door inscribed with "BOYS" above. Bipartite windows flank the door at ground level, with smaller tripartite windows above. Additional windows are positioned on the returns; a pair to the right and a single window to the left. The eastern (Matthew Street) elevation is a mirror image of the western, with “GIRLS & INFANTS” inscribed above the entrance, and a shouldered wallhead stack to the outer right.

The southern (Nile Street) elevation is 15 bays, grouped in threes, with the central nine bays slightly advanced. The fenestration is regular on each floor, with a segmental pediment breaking the eaves in the centre bay, and corniced windowheads above the first floor in bays five and eleven. Shaped gableheads also break the eaves in bays four to six and ten to twelve.

The northern (Patterson Street) elevation has 18 bays with regular fenestration, and a modern flat-roofed extension to the left of centre.

The windows are timber sash and case with small-pane and plate glass glazing. The roof is slate-covered, with grey slates. Decorative features include cavetto-coped ashlar stacks with cans, ashlar-coped skewputts with flat skewputts, and cast-iron downpipes with dated rainwater hoppers.

The interior features boarded dadoes and picture rails. Vestibules are situated off the western and eastern entrances, each with a staircase and a double arcade (the western arcade is blocked). The eastern staircase leads to a cloakroom with a ceramic-tiled dado. A full-height, top-lit centre hall provides access to classrooms on both floors, with a gallery supported by cast-iron balusters, scrollwork supports, and a timber handrail. The hall has a hammerbeam roof with corbelled brace supports.

An outbuilding, single-storey with a gambrel roof and slate covering, adjoins the northeastern boundary wall. It features a pyramidal-roofed ridge vent and a western elevation with corniced windows breaking the eaves, as well as a boarded timber door below a blocked window. Low saddleback-coped boundary walls with inset railings are present along the eastern, southern, and western boundaries, while higher flat-coped rubble boundary walls enclose the northeastern, northwestern, and northern sides.