Lorne House, 60-64 East Port, Dunfermline

Lorne House, located at 60-64 East Port in Dunfermline, is an early 19th-century detached house with later additions. It stands three stories tall with an attic and features a rectangular plan. The building has a flat-roofed single-storey shopfront section that projects to the south. The design is classical and symmetrical, showcasing a piano nobile with corniced windows and moulded architraves on the south elevation, which is made of sandstone ashlar. The other elevations are rendered with ashlar dressings. The principal elevation has an eaves cornice and a band course above the ground floor, along with channelled quoins. The original block has architraved openings, except for the second floor.

On the south elevation, a corniced flat-roofed section extends across the width of the original block, slightly projecting to the left. The entrance is centrally located and flanked by channelled ashlar pilasters, featuring a part-glazed replacement door with a rectangular fanlight. There are flanking glazed shopfronts with central entrances, also supported by channelled ashlar pilasters. The first and second floors have windows set back in each bay, while a flat-roofed addition with a window is slightly set back to the outer left. The attic features a pair of inserted polygonal piended dormers.

The north elevation is partially obscured by a coped rendered boundary wall and has a central entrance with a 20th-century porch and a visible pediment set back over the door. There are flanking windows on the ground and first floors, with one window above.

The east elevation has an attic window to the left of the gable and one centered below it. A single-storey flat-roofed addition with a window is adjacent to the left. The west elevation features a flat-roofed addition that projects across the entire ground floor and part of the first floor, with an attic window to the right of the gable.

The building mainly has six and twelve-pane timber sash and case windows, with UPVC replacements on the first floor of the south elevation. The roof is covered with grey slate, and there are coped rendered stacks with round cans. The interior has not been inspected since 1999.