54 And 56 Townsend Place, Kirkcaldy

54 and 56 Townsend Place in Kirkcaldy is an early 19th-century, two-storey building with a basement and attic, featuring a three-bay rectangular plan. It is situated on sloping ground to the south and is part of an irregular terrace to the west. The exterior is finished in dressed ashlar with coursed rubble on the sides and rear, and includes base, cill, and eaves courses.

The north elevation, which is the principal front, has a flight of steps leading up to the central bay, flanked by cast-iron railings that extend over the basement. This central bay features a corniced doorcase with Ionic columns and a deep-set panelled timber door topped with a radial-astragalled fanlight. There are windows in the flanking bays at both the ground floor and basement levels, with regular window arrangements on the first floor. Small rooflights are positioned over the bays to the center and right.

The south elevation has symmetrical window arrangements on the first floor and a piended dormer window to the left of center, although the ground floor is not visible. The east elevation includes a gabled bay with a window at the center of the first floor and attic, while the ground floor is also not visible. There is a shaped, harled screen wall with a pedestrian door located to the outer right at ground level.

The windows are timber sash and case with 4- and 12-pane glazing patterns. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are coped ashlar stacks with cans, ashlar-coped skews, and thackstanes. Decorative cast-iron downpipes with rainwater hoppers are also present.

The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 1996. The boundary walls consist of low saddleback-coped harled walls to the south, with coped rubble walls elsewhere.