Wemyss Buildings, High Street, Kirkcaldy

Wemyss Buildings, located on High Street in Kirkcaldy, is a three-storey and attic tenement built in 1909, with alterations at the ground level. The building features seven bays and includes an arcade and shops on the ground floor, showcasing French Second Empire architectural details and a corner tower. It is constructed from red sandstone and rubble, with sandstone quoins. Notable architectural elements include a ground floor cornice, a moulded dividing course, a cill course to the centre and outer left bays, and an eaves course. The windows are architraved and bracketed, with obscured keystones, stone mullions, and chamfered arrises.

On the south elevation facing High Street, the slightly advanced centre bay has a segmental-pedimented arcade entrance with a keystone, fluted pilasters, scroll brackets, and floral details in the spandrels. To the right of the centre, there are two shops flanking a pilastered entrance with a deep fanlight, while a modern shop with a central door is to the left. The first floor features a tripartite window in the centre, three windows to the right, and two windows to the left, including a canted tripartite window at the outer left corner. The second floor has similar fenestration but includes a ball-finialled, scroll bracketed pediment and a French pavilion roof that breaks the eaves over the centre tripartite window. To the left, there is a two-storey canted corner bay above the ground floor cornice, designed as an orielled tower with a panelled frieze and a small bellcast polygonal roof topped with a decorative cast-iron weathervane. The roof features two modern rooflights to the left of centre and two unsympathetic timber dormer windows to the right.

The building has plate glass glazing in timber sash and case windows on the left of the first floor and in the centre of the second floor, while modern glazing is used elsewhere. The roofs are covered with grey slates arranged in a fish-scale pattern on the pavilion and bellcast roofs. The gable and ridge stacks are made of coped ashlar and rubble, with the left of centre stack being truncated and some with cans. The ashlar coped skews and moulded skewputts add to the architectural detail.

Inside, the close features enamel glazed tiles.