British Linen Bank Building, Forth Street, Leven

The British Linen Bank Building, located on Forth Street in Leven, dates back to 1893. This three-storey, five-bay structure features classical detailing and originally served as a bank with residential dwellings above, forming part of an irregular terrace to the northwest. The exterior is constructed from squared and snecked, rock-faced rubble with dressed ashlar accents, and it has been stone-cleaned. Notable architectural elements include moulded dividing courses, an eaves course, broken apex pediments, segmentally-pedimented details at the gableheads, pedimented dormerheads, and oriel windows, along with chamfered arrises, stone transoms, and mullions.

On the southwest or principal elevation, the central bay features a doorcase with fluted pilasters on panelled bases, a deep plain frieze, and a cornice that leads to a broken apex pediment. The entrance consists of a three-leaf panelled timber door and a plate glass fanlight. Flanking this are six-light transomed windows, with a four-light transomed window to the outer left and paired, pedimented doorways to the outer right, one of which has been converted into a window. The first floor has a single window with a broken apex pediment in the central bay, additional windows in the flanking bays, and canted tripartite oriel windows with deep blocking courses in the outer bays. There is a moulded stone inscription reading 'A 1893 D' to the right. The second floor features four bays with two windows in the centre that break the eaves into ball-finialled pedimented dormerheads, and bipartite windows in the outer gabled bays, each with a gunloop in the gablehead.

The first floor has plate glass glazing in timber sash and case windows, while the ground floor has fixed windows and the second floor features pivot windows. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are cavetto-coped ashlar stacks and ashlar-coped skews, along with cast-iron downpipes that have decorative rainwater hoppers.

Inside, the Forth House features a timber dog-leg staircase with ball-finialled newel posts, a boarded dado, some panelled soffits, and plain cornices. The Bank of Scotland Building includes egg-and-dart cornices.