Earl David Hotel, Main Street, Coaltown Of Wemyss

Alexander Tod, 1911. 2-storey, flat-iron plan public house and small tenement. Harled with painted margins. Mutuled dividing cornice and eaves course. Ogee- and round-headed doorways, corniced bow windows to SE and shaped pedimented dormerheads.

SE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: ogee-headed doorpiece in bay to right of centre with carved coat-of-arms in tympanum and 2-leaf timber door, window immediately to right and large bow window in penultimate bay to right, further window beyond. 2 windows to centre and left bays, flanking glazed oculus, further bow window in penultimate bay to left and round-headed door beyond with decoratively-astragalled fanlight. 5 windows (grouped toward centre) with dormerheads breaking eaves to 1st floor, 2 left bays flanking small window. Carved panels to outer bays, that to left worded 'COALTOWN OF WEMYSS PUBLIC HOUSE SOCIETY' and that to right 'EARL DAVID 1911'.

SW ELEVATION: gabled bay to right of centre with bow window to right and further window to left at ground, bipartite window to 1st floor with adjacent door to left; centre bay with forestair to 1st floor door, 2 windows to each floor in flat-roofed link to left, and projecting piended bay to outer left with door to ground and window to 1st floor on return to right.

NE ELEVATION: gabled elevation with bow window to ground and bipartite window at 1st floor. Forestair to outer right leading to door with small adjacent window (modern) to left.

NW ELEVATION: asymmetrical elevation with variety of elements including 4 (grouped 1-3) 1st floor window pedimented as above.

8- and 12-pane glazing patterns in timber sash and case windows; bow windows to SE and SW with fixed multi-pane glazing and leaded coloured glass; bow window to NE with 2-pane glazing over plate glass lower panes. Grey slates. Coped harled stacks with cans; ashlar-coped stepped skews with moulded skewputts, and cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers.

INTERIOR: modern, except retention of fine coloured glass in bow windows (see above), and floor mosaic with swan and worded 'COALTOWN OF WEMYSS' 'EARL DAVID PUBLIC HOUSE SOCIETY LIMITED' (see Notes).