Bowhill Public House, 131, 133 Station Road, Auchterderran

The Bowhill Public House, located at 131-133 Station Road, Auchterderran, was built in 1904 and later extended with a clock tower designed by William Syme of Kirkcaldy in 1920. It is a two-storey building with a cellar, situated on a corner site and distinguished by a four-stage, lead-domed corner tower with a Baroque oriel at the first floor.

The building is constructed of red brick and cement rendering, accented by contrasting ashlar quoins and surrounds. Features include a base course, bracketed cornicing over the ground floor, a moulded eaves course, segmental-headed openings, stone mullions, keystones, and corbelling.

The corner tower, projecting to the northeast, features a segmental-headed, keystoned and moulded doorway with a plate glass fanlight. Above the doorway, the tower corbels to the cornice and incorporates a canted tripartite window at the first floor, with chamfered angles and a cavetto cornice. The third stage is ashlar and eight-sided, with a single window to the northeast and blind faces with elongated moulded brackets and a cavetto cornice. The fourth stage houses Roman clock faces with pediments – triangular to the north and south, semicircular to the east and west – and a blind oculus to the west. Timber louvres occupy the recessed faces, and the lead dome is finished with segmental moulding and an attenuated finial.

The east elevation consists of three bays. The gabled bay to the right, adjoining the tower, has a three-part segmental-headed window at ground level, a bipartite window at first floor, and a gable that breaks the eaves, with a corbelled, semicircular-moulded base to a shouldered stack. A further gabled bay is located to the left, featuring bipartite windows to both floors and a blinded arrow slit in the finialled gablehead. The centre bay has a three-part segmental-headed window at ground level, a door to the right, a blocked door to the left, and a further door to the left.

The north elevation also comprises three bays. A gabled bay to the left, adjoining the tower, features a three-part segmental-headed window at ground level, a bipartite window at first floor, and a blind arrow slit in the finialled gablehead. A similar gabled bay is to the right but with a bipartite window at ground level. The centre bay has a door to the right and an adjacent window to the left, with a three-part segmental-headed window to the centre and left. The first floor has a bipartite window at the centre and two windows to the right, with a further window to the left.

The west elevation has a flight of stone steps leading to a small first-floor porch with a timber door.

The south elevation exhibits a variety of elements, including cellar doors and asymmetrical fenestration.

The windows are timber sash and case with four-pane and plate glass glazing, while the segmental-headed windows (on the north centre and east right) have small-pane over plate glass glazing, with extractor fans at the centre. The roof is covered in grey slates. The stacks are cavetto-coped ashlar, some with cans, and ashlar coped skewputts with moulded and flat skewputts.

The interior includes a panelled archway with moulded pilasters, decorative plasterwork, and egg and dart cornicing. A dog-leg stair features decorative cast-iron balusters, a timber handrail, and a stair window with coloured margins. The cellar contains square, full-height stone pillars and wall niches.