43-51 High Street, Aberdour

18th century with later alterations. 2-storey with attic, 4-bay (post office to ground floor), rectangular-plan house with 3-storey, 3-bay early 20th century tenement attached to rear. Rendered, stone margins to openings.

NW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: asymmetrical elevation. Shopfront; central recessed door, flanking canted display windows with low stall risers. Blocked far right lower section of display window incorporating George VI letterbox with 2 defunct vending machines. Ventilators, architrave, pulvinated frieze and moulded cornice to shopfront. Door to far left. Regularly spaced 1st floor windows close to eaves.

NE ELEVATION: attached to 41 High Street.

SE ELEVATION: door to off-centre left, flanking windows to ground floor. 1st and 2nd floor windows arranged above ground floor windows. Extra small central 1st floor window.

SW ELEVATION: attached to 55 High Street.

Shopfront; timber and glass door with fanlight, plate glass windows with timber astragals. Timber boarded door with fanlight to far left of NW elevation, modern door to SE. Predominantly 2-pane timber sash and case windows with horns, 8-pane sash and case windows to ground floor of SE. Centred cast-iron rooflight flanked by piended 8-pane timber sash and case dormer windows to NW. Pitched slate roof to NW. Coped skews, skewputts to NW. Coped gable apex stack to NE, coped shared gable apex stack to SW, polygonal clay cans.

INTERIOR: modernised interior to post office. Stairwell to tenement with original decorative cast-iron balusters remaining in parts.

OUTBUILDING: 3 small outbuildings to rear; predominantly brick with central stone rubble section, monopitch roof, red clay pantiles. Wash house to far NW; remains of boiler to NE wall, 2 raised sinks to SW wall, stone tile floor.