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

D Forbes Smith, dated 1906. 2-storey, 5-bay, rectangular-plan Baroque school with piend roof gambrelled at angles. Bull-faced squared rubble with polished ashlar dressings. Giant order, broken-pedimented, and pilastered entrance bays with consoled semicircular balcony below keystoned, round-headed, concave-moulded, 9-light transomed window and bold stylised flanking scrolls. Chamfered plinth, moulded 1st floor cill course to E and W, bracketed cills to N and S, cavetto eaves cornice. Shouldered, architraved doorways; stepped keystones; stone transoms and mullions.

W (PRIME GILT BOX STREET) ELEVATION: 3 lower piended bays to centre. Entrance bay with deep-set 2-leaf panelled timber door inscribed 'BOYS' on lintel, flanked by bipartite windows at ground and smaller tripartite windows above; bipartite window to each floor on return to right and to ground floor only on return to left; recessed face with 2 windows to taller 1st floor in bay to right of centre, further window to left; tall narrow window to outer right at ground, and horizontally aligned tripartite window to outer left between floors.

E (MATTHEW STREET) ELEVATION: mirrors W elevation, but with 'GIRLS & INFANTS' inscribed on lintel; and shouldered wallhead stack to outer right.

S (NILE STREET) ELEVATION: 15-bay (grouped 3-3-3-3-3), centre 9 bays slightly advanced. Regular fenestration to each floor; centre bay with segmental pediment breaking eaves cornice, bays 5 and 11 with corniced 1st floor windowheads, and bays 4-6 and 10-12 with shaped gableheads breaking eaves.

N (PATTERSON STREET) ELEVATION: 18-bay. Regular fenestration to each floor; modern flat-roofed extension to left of centre.

Small-pane and plate glass glazing patterns in timber sash and case windows. Grey slates. Cavetto-coped ashlar stacks with cans; ashlar-coped skews with flat skewputts; cast-iron downpipes with decorated and dated rainwater hoppers.

INTERIOR: boarded dadoes and picture rails. Vestibule off W and E entrances, each with staircase opposite double arcade (that to W blocked), that to E leading to cloakroom with ceramic-tiled dado. Full-height, top-lit centre hall with classrooms off at each floor, gallery with cast-iron balusters, scrollwork supports and timber handrail; hammerbeam roof with corbelled brace supports.

OUTBUILDING: single storey, gambrel-roofed, slated outbuilding with eaves course and pyramidal-roofed ridge vent to NE adjoining boundary wall. W elevation with 2 tall, corniced windows breaking eaves at centre, 2 windows to right, further window to left and 2-leaf boarded timber door below blocked window to outer left.

BOUNDARY WALLS: low saddleback-coped boundary walls with inset railings to E, S and W. Flat-coped squared and snecked rubble high boundary walls to NE, NW and N.