Public Library And Health Centre, Main Street, Kinglassie

The former Public Library and Health Centre in Kinglassie, built in 1883, is a single-storey, five-bay building designed in an E-plan layout. It features steeply pitched roofs topped with spired fleches. The structure is constructed from hammer-dressed and random rubble, accented with polished and droved ashlar quoins, and includes a base course and eaves course. Notable architectural details include basket-arched doorways and stop-chamfered arrises.

The northern entrance elevation is symmetrical, featuring an advanced gable at the center with a full-height projecting chimney breast and flanking windows, along with narrow windows on the returns. To the right, there is a recessed bay with a two-leaf door and an adjacent window, while a similar recessed bay to the left has a partly blocked window. An outer right gable is slightly advanced, containing two windows and a blind niche in the gablehead, with a small window on the return to the left. The outer right gable mirrors this design.

On the southern elevation, the recessed central bay has five windows, although bays one, two, and three are blocked. This bay is flanked by gables, each with two windows. The eastern elevation features five regularly spaced windows at ground level, along with a timber-louvred fleche with a lead pinnacle and a decorative wrought-iron finial positioned to the left of center. The western elevation is a mirror image of the eastern elevation.

The building has small-pane glazing in top-opening timber windows and is roofed with graded grey slates. It features coped ashlar stacks, ashlar coped skews, and stepped outer gables on the southern side, complete with moulded skewputts. The boundary walls surrounding the property are made of coped rubble, with semicircular coping on the northern side.