The Cedars, 9 East Fergus Place, Kirkcaldy

The Cedars is a two-storey, three-bay house built around 1870, originally in the Tudor Gothic style. In 1918, the dining room was extended by William Symes, followed by a smaller extension to the rear in 1956. The building was subsequently converted into offices in 1957. It is constructed of squared and snecked rubble with ashlar dressings, featuring base and eaves courses. The design incorporates pointed-arch windows, a roll-moulded doorway, hoodmoulds with label stops, a corbelled stack, and stone mullions.

The east elevation (principal facade) has a broad, advanced gable on the left, featuring a canted four-part window with a shared hoodmould over the central bay, a bipartite window above, and a blind trefoil in the gablehead finial. To the right, another advanced gable is marked by a moulded panel in a corbelled stack that pierces the gablehead, flanked by first-floor windows. The central bay contains a flat-roofed, corniced porch in a re-entrant angle, with a bipartite window to the left and a single window to the right. The right return incorporates a coped dwarf wall and a gabletted pier leading to steps and a hoodmoulded pointed-arch doorway with carved floreate spandrels, a deep-set panelled timber door, and a plate glass fanlight, all beneath a stepped cornice with a blind panel.

The north elevation (North Fergus Place) features an advanced gabled bay to the left with a canted quadripartite window on both ground and first floors. The recessed bay to the right has a ground floor with an advanced, corniced tripartite window to the left, and a canted quadripartite window clasping the outer right angle, and a bipartite window on the first floor.

The west elevation includes a single-storey lean-to extension at ground level, with a stepped screen wall on the return to the left, featuring two small windows, the left one pointed-arched. The first floor has a bipartite stair window centrally positioned, flanked by irregular gables, each with a square-headed window. A flat-roofed extension is attached to the outer right at ground level.

The south elevation is asymmetrical, with a small gable positioned off-centre to the right.

The windows are timber sash and case with plate glass glazing, with coloured glass in the stair window. The roof is covered in grey slates, accented by coped ashlar stacks, stepped ashlar skewbacks, and gablet skewputts. Cast-iron downpipes are complemented by decorative rainwater hoppers.

Internally, decorative plasterwork cornicing, friezes, and ceilings are found, along with panelled shutters. The hall has an encaustic tiled floor and decorative plasterwork panels. A northeast-facing room features fine classical plasterwork and a carved timber fireplace. The staircase has barley-twist cast-iron balusters and a timber handrail, with the stair window containing coloured glass and a ship detail. The first-floor landing incorporates two pointed arches supported by columns with stiff-leaf capitals.

The property is enclosed by coped rubble boundary walls.