Former Employment Exchange Building, 11 Guildhall Street, Dunfermline

The Former Employment Exchange Building, located at 11 Guildhall Street in Dunfermline, was constructed by H M Office of Works between 1935 and 1937. This three-storey building has an L-shaped layout with a short narrow wing on the north side. It features a design inspired by late 17th century Scottish Renaissance architecture, characterized by pedimented dormer windows and entrance porches with ogee roofs on the principal (east) elevation.

The principal elevation is made of coursed rockfaced sandstone rubble, while the north side is harled. Sandstone ashlar is used for the dressings, with a base course and an eaves band also present. The windows on the upper floors have architraves with long and short surrounds, and those on the first floor are topped with relieving arches, while the second floor windows feature pediments. The gables are coped, and the principal elevation has scrolled skewputts and angle quoins.

On the east elevation, there are five bays. The entrance porches project from the outer bays, each featuring a small window with a moulded surround and a six-panel timber door leading to the inner return. The outer return of the right porch has a stone panel with a crown above the letters "ER" and the date 1936. Each of the three central bays has a ground floor window that is curved at the upper edges, with long and short surrounds and radiating keyblocks above the lintels. The first floor has one window in each bay, while the second floor includes four dormer windows positioned between the bays. A short section of harled and coped boundary wall is set back to the outer right, with a central entrance featuring long and short surrounds and a six-panel timber door.

The west elevation consists of seven bays, with architraved entrances in the second bay from the left and the second bay from the right. The central bay has a two-light mullioned window on each floor, while the rest of the fenestration is fairly regular.

The north elevation features a short narrow wing that projects to the right of center. It has four bays on the left that are regularly fenestrated on the upper storeys, while the three bays on the right have irregular fenestration.

The building primarily has 20-pane timber sash and case windows on the principal (north) elevation, while the other elevations mainly feature 12/15-pane timber sash and case windows. The roofs are covered with grey slate where visible, and there is a harled coped gablehead stack on the south side with octagonal cans.