Viewfield House, Viewfield Terrace, Dunfermline

Viewfield House is a large, detached house dating from the early 18th century, with alterations made in the early 19th century and later, and converted into flats in 1982-83. It is now arranged as three storeys and an attic, with a rectangular plan and a Classical design. The main, north-facing elevation features a slightly projecting, pedimented entrance bay flanked by Palladian windows on the upper floors. The house is constructed of sandstone ashlar, with a heavily rockfaced basement. The ashlar is droved except on the principal north elevation. Features include a base course to the basement and ground floor, a sill course to the first floor, and a band course between the first and second floors (omitted at the rear, south elevation). An eaves cornice tops the building.

The north elevation has a central bay with steps leading to a recessed architrave within a round-arched opening, incorporating a fanlight above a 9-panel timber door. Flanking columns with acanthus leaf capitals support an entablature. V-jointed masonry is visible on the ground floor to either side, and there is a window in each flanking bay on every floor above the basement. The first-floor windows are architraved with consoled cornices. A Venetian window sits above the entrance, with a flat lintel recessed within a round-arched opening, and a balustrade below the sill. A flat-headed Venetian window is centrally located on the second floor. A central entrance to the basement has a 6-panel timber door with narrow flanking windows inserted beside it, and two windows to the right and one to the left.

The south-facing elevation features a projecting 19th-century ashlar vestibule to the right of centre, extending to the basement and ground floor. A large stair window is recessed within a round-arched surround. An architraved entrance is on the left return, with an inserted entrance on the right return, both featuring late 20th-century timber doors with rectangular fanlights. The main block is set back, displaying four regularly fenestrated bays with a window on each floor and to either side of the vestibule.

The east elevation has two basement lean-to additions and a window set back in the centre. Above, three regularly fenestrated bays are visible, with a window on each floor. The window on the outer right is blocked.

The west elevation includes a basement entrance with a late 20th-century timber door to the left and a window to the right. Above, three regularly fenestrated bays are stacked, with a window on each floor – the outer left and outer right windows on the second floor are blocked.

The majority of the windows are 12-pane timber sash and case. A grey slate, piended platform roof covers the building, with a pair of corniced wallhead stacks – one on the east side and one on the west – each topped with round cans.

The interior features a dog-leg staircase with a cast iron balustrade, likely dating from the early 19th century, which rises from the vestibule to the rear of the building. An octagonal lantern sits at the apex. The entrance lobby has plaster fan vaulting rising to a flat, oval ceiling, decorated with Adamesque plasterwork. The internal layout largely reflects the conversion into flats. Some early 20th-century plasterwork, including fake panelling, Adamesque details, and a timber dado are present in the main room of the ground-floor flat at number 3 and in the stairwell.