St Margaret's, East Fergus Place, Kirkcaldy

St Margaret’s is a two-storey, three-bay domestic Gothic house designed by Sir Robert Rowand Anderson and built in 1879. It is now offices and is linked to the separately listed building at 15 Wemyssfield. The exterior is constructed of squared and snecked rock-faced rubble with polished ashlar dressings, featuring plate-traceried windows and pointed-arch, round, and shouldered openings. Buttresses are two-stage, raked, and coped, with relieving arches and hoodmoulds bearing floreate label stops. The window reveals are chamfered, with stone transoms and mullions.

The principal west elevation has advanced, steeply-pitched gabled outer bays flanking a central bay containing a hoodmoulded, trefoil-headed doorway within a lean-to porch. The porch has a deep-set boarded timber door in a re-entrant angle to the left, and a small window to the right. A tall, six-part transomed and mullioned window is to the right, with a smaller bipartite window to the left above the porch. To the left gable are two bays with bipartite ground floor windows each featuring a small centrally positioned window, and a relieving arch above; two-light traceried windows with dividing colonnettes and a shared cill are above, topped by a blinded oculus in the gablehead. The right gable is largely blank, featuring a full-height, corbelled stack centrally and a first-floor window abutting to the left, with an angle buttress to the outer right.

The south elevation has an advanced canted window to the left of centre, with transomed bipartite windows on each face, a cornice, and a deep blocking course above. A bipartite window is to the outer right, and an off-centre window to the left. First-floor outer bays have shouldered bipartite windows breaking the eaves into dormer gablets, and a finialled, piended tripartite dormer window to the centre. A modern single-storey porch and the harled west wing of 15 Wemyssfield are attached to the outer right.

The north elevation features a transomed window to the centre at ground level with a slightly advanced, full-height, raked, and shouldered stack abutting to the right; a tripartite window with a relieving arch is to the left, and a smaller bipartite window above, breaking eaves into a dormer gablet. The west wing abuts to the outer left.

The west elevation is largely obscured by the wing of 15 Wemyssfield, but evidence remains of outer gables with shouldered stacks, and a small, finialled, and piended bipartite dormer window to the centre.

The windows are timber sash and case with small-pane glazing over plate glass. The roof is covered in rosemary tiles with pierced terracotta ridge tiles and finials. Stacks are coped rubble with terracotta cans, and there are cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers.

The interior retains an extensive decorative scheme, including a small window with coloured glass to the vestibule, a part-glazed decorative door to a timber-panelled hall with segmental-headed, transomed, leaded windows to the west. There is an ashlar canopied corner fireplace with moulded jambs and cornice, and a carved floreate corbel. A scale-and-platt staircase has turned balusters and cusped tri-lobed arcading supporting an arcaded gallery, with a coloured glass stair window. A plain cornice with a decorative frieze is present. A ground floor room to the north features a panelled dado, timber fireplace, panelled alcove, bracketed and beamed ceiling, and stained glass lights over the west windows.

The property is enclosed by coped rubble boundary walls.