Headwell House, Headwell Avenue, Dunfermline

Headwell House is an early 19th century, two-storey, three-bay classical T-plan house located on Headwell Avenue in Dunfermline. The house features an advanced central bay with a pediment and a columned doorpiece. The principal elevation is finished in painted ashlar with a V-jointed ground floor that includes voussoirs, an advanced string course, and a continuous corniced cill course at the first floor, along with a corniced eaves course. The building has advanced quoins and first-floor window surrounds. The west and north elevations are constructed of tooled exposed sandstone, while the north stair tower and east elevation are rendered.

On the south (principal) elevation, there is a central door with a fanlight, flanked by windows, and the doorpiece is supported by plain Tuscan columns and an entablature. The first floor has three windows centered above the door. The west elevation has two ground floor windows in the outer bays and two first-floor windows centered above. The north elevation features two ground floor windows to the left and one first-floor window to the left, along with a central projecting pitched stair tower that has a window at the first floor and a ground floor door in the right return. A further mono-pitched section extends from the stair tower, with a ground floor door and a doorway in the left return, leading to steps that access a door in the right return, and a first-floor window in the left return. The east elevation has a central first-floor window.

All openings are currently boarded up. The house has a pitched slate roof with raised flat-headed skews, capped gable apex stacks, and ashlar on the east side while the west side is rendered.

The interior was not seen as of 2000. The boundary wall is made of sandstone rubble with curved coping stones, sweeping at the southeast corner. There is a central pair of chamfered ashlar gatepiers topped with pyramidal caps and replacement gates.