Walled Garden, Kinglassie House

Kinglassie House is a 2-storey, 3-bay gabled house dated 1883 but incorporating earlier fabric possibly from 1692. It is constructed of painted dressed ashlar and lined cement render with quoin strips and stone margins. The arrises are stop-chamfered and the windows feature stone mullions.

The principal south elevation is symmetrical, with a part-glazed door at the centre sheltered by a part-glazed timber porch whose top lights are coloured and leaded, with a door on the return to the left. Flat-roofed canted windows occupy the flanking bays, and regular fenestration appears at first-floor level. A gable rises at the centre above, featuring a glazed oculus and a stack at the gablehead.

The west elevation has an advanced gable to the right with windows to both floors at the outer right, a glazed oculus at the centre and a gablehead stack. A slightly recessed single-bay extension to the left contains windows to each floor; the first-floor window has a carved lintel below inscribed "16 EB 92" and above "18 JM 83". A boarded timber door with a 3-part fanlight sits within a small porch on the return to the left, with a window above. Further windows appear in a recessed bay to the left and in a single-storey extension beyond. An outbuilding abuts the outer left.

The north elevation presents a blank irregular gable with gablehead stacks and a projecting single-storey extension containing two windows, with an outbuilding adjoining the outer right.

The east elevation has an advanced gable to the left with a window (converted from a door) to the right at ground level, a small window in the gablehead and a stack above at the centre. A bay to the right contains two asymmetrically disposed windows to each floor, with a further window in a gabled single-storey extension to the outer right.

Windows are mostly 2-pane upper over plate-glass lower sashes, timber sash and case throughout except those to the 2-storey extension to the west, where canted windows have plate-glass glazing. The roof is laid with graded grey slates. Stacks are painted ashlar with cavetto coping, cans, and ashlar-coped skews.

The interior retains good traditional late 19th-century decorative schemes. The porch has a boarded timber roof and coloured glass top lights, each with a centre roundel depicting different birds. A part-glazed door etched with the words "DREAD NOUGHT" opens into a flagstoned hall with plain cornice. Another etched-glass panel appears in a converted door of the ground-floor room to the east. A curved staircase with decorative cast-iron balusters and timber handrail connects the floors, lit by a rooflight of etched glass with coloured margins. A moulded arch at first-floor level leads to the later extension. Working shutters survive, and principal ground-floor rooms have timber fire surrounds. First-floor rooms feature decorative cast-iron fireplaces with tile slips. A bell board with a full complement of brass bells is installed in the kitchen, accessed via a roll-moulded doorway.

An outbuilding, a single-storey slated bothy, stands to the west. It has a timber door to the right of centre with flanking windows to the south, a window to the west, and two further windows to the north. Gablehead stacks appear at the east and west ends, with thackstanes on the western stack. The skews are ashlar-coped. A room to the left has boarded timber walls and ceiling with a timber fireplace.

A small terrace with steps down to the south leads to a walled garden. Access into the garden is via a cast-iron gate with a stone lintel at the centre of the north wall, flanked by small niches. A further pedestrian opening with small gatepiers and moulded finials occupies the centre of the lower south wall.

The boundary walls are coped rubble construction. The gatepiers are pyramidal-coped rusticated ashlar, and the main gate is decorative cast iron.