Wemyss Buildings, High Street, Kirkcaldy

1909, altered at ground. 3-storey and attic, 7-bay tenement with arcade and shops at ground with French 2nd Empire details and corner tower. Red sandstone and rubble with sandstone quoins. Ground floor cornice, moulded dividing course, cill course to centre and outer left bays, and eaves course. Architraved and bracketed windows; keystone (obscured), stone mullions and chamfered arrises.

S (HIGH STREET) ELEVATION: slightly advanced centre bay with segmental- pedimented and keystoned arcade entrance with fluted pilasters, scroll brackets and floreate detail to spandrels; 2 shops to right of centre flanking pilastered pend entrance with deep fanlight, and modern shop with centre door to left. 1st floor with tripartite window to centre, 3 windows to right and 2 windows to left with canted tripartite window to outer left corner. Similar fenestration to 2nd floor but with ball-finialled, scroll bracketed pediment and French pavilion roof breaking eaves over centre tripartite window; 2-storey canted corner bay to left over ground floor cornice as orielled tower, with panelled frieze and small bellcast polygonal roof, decorative cast-iron weathervane. 2 modern rooflights to left of centre and 2 unsympathetic timber dormer windows to right.

Plate glass glazing in timber sash and case windows to 1st floor left and 2nd floor centre; modern glazing elsewhere. Grey slates, fish- scale pattern to pavilion and bellcast roofs. Coped ashlar and rubble gable and ridge stacks (that to left of centre truncated) with some cans. Ashlar coped skews and moulded skewputts.

INTERIOR: enamel glazed tiles to close.