Former Employment Exchange Building, 11 Guildhall Street, Dunfermline

H M Office of Works, 1935-37. 3-storey; L-plan former office building/employment exchange with short narrow wing to N side. Late 17th century Scottish Renaissance design with pedimented dormer windows and flanking ogee-roofed pavilion-style entrance porches to principal (E) elevation. Coursed rockfaced sandstone rubble to principal elevation; harled to N side; sandstone ashlar dressings. Base course and eaves band to principal elevation. Architraved windows with flanking long and short surrounds to upper floors to principal elevation; those to 1st floor with relieving arches above; those to 2nd floor with pediments. Coped gables; scrolled skewputts to principle elevation. Angle quoins to principle elevation.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 5 bays. Entrance porches project to flanking outer bays; each with small window with moulded surround and entrance with 6-panel timber door to inner return; panel to outer return of right porch bears crown above letters ER and date 1936, all carved in stone. Ground floor window to each of 3 central bays; each curved at upper edges and with long and short surrounds and radiating keyblocks to lintel. Window to each bay to 1st floor. 4 dormer windows (to spaces in between bays) to 2nd floor. Short section of harled and coped boundary wall set back to outer right; central entrance with long and short surrounds; 6-panel timber door.

W ELEVATION: 7 bays; architraved entrances to 2nd bay from left and 2nd bay from right. 2-light mullioned window to each floor to central bay; otherwise fairly regular fenestration.

N ELEVATION: short narrow wing projects to right of centre. 4 bays to left; regularly fenestrated to upper storeys. 3 irregularly fenestrated bays to right.

Mainly 20-pane timber sash and case windows to principle (N) elevation; mainly 12/15-pane timber sash and case windows elsewhere. Grey slate roofs where visible. Harled coped gablehead stack to S side; octagonal cans.