27 Canmore Street, Dunfermline

This is an earlier-mid 19th century detached villa, now converted into flats, with later additions. The building is two storeys and a basement with an attic, and originally had a three-bay design. A single-storey wing was added to the west, the basement extended to the south, and a shallow two-storey extension was constructed to the east. The design is Classical, featuring Ionic columns on a porch to the main north elevation.

The principal north elevation is finished in polished ashlar, with a droved basement. Elsewhere, the exterior is mainly coursed rubble with droved ashlar dressings, with the east extension being harled. There is a base course to the basement and ground floor, a band course above the ground floor, and an eaves cornice to the north elevation. The original block has an eaves band and vertical margins at the arrises. Ground floor windows on the north elevation have moulded architraves with aprons featuring fielded panels. All other floors on the original block have architraved window openings.

The north elevation features steps leading up to a central entrance, which has a shallow porch supported by short walls terminating as pilasters and a pair of Ionic columns. Above the door is a rectangular fanlight. There is a window above and one to either side on each floor. A central entrance to the basement has a timber door. A polygonal piended dormer is positioned centrally on the roof. Cast-iron railings with fleur-de-lys and spearhead finials run along the street in front of the basement and on either side of the steps to the main entrance. A shallow harled extension is set back slightly to the left, and a single-storey wing adjoins to the right; a single bay is set back slightly, and the wing projects to the outer right. A three-light mullioned window marks the site of a former entrance to a carriage drive, with an entrance to the left return.

The south elevation has regular fenestration on the ground and first floors of the original block, with a dormer in the centre. A harled basement extension, incorporating a flat roof as a terrace, extends across most of the site's width. A single-storey extension is set back to the left, and a shallow extension with a window to both ground and first floors is set back to the right.

The east elevation is dominated by a shallow two-storey extension with irregular fenestration.

The west elevation comprises a single-storey wing with two gable-ended sections to the right, and a blank wall extending to the left.

The majority of windows are 12-pane timber sash and case windows. The roofs are covered with grey slate and are mainly piended. The original block features a wallhead stack with six coped octagonal stacks, two to the east and two to the west, each topped with a round can.

The interior was not inspected in 1998.