Bowbutts House, Bruce Terrace, Kinghorn

Bowbutts House is a late 18th-century house, likely incorporating earlier fabric, that was altered in the 19th century. It underwent restoration between 1920 and 1935 under the direction of architect William Williamson, and later in 1966 by W Jack of Jack Fisher Partnership. The building is a 2-storey and attic, 6-bay, L-plan house featuring a shallow-gabled, bow-fronted tower. It is constructed of roughly coursed rubble with squared rubble quoins and stone margins, some raised, and includes relieving arches. Venetian windows are keystoned, and there are stone mullions. The south-east elevation is symmetrical, with the bowed tower rising above the eaves in the centre bay, containing three tall windows to the ground and first floors and two narrow windows to the attic. The bays to either side of the tower are lower, with a two-leaf, part-glazed timber door at ground floor and single windows to the first floor. A recessed bay exists to the outer left, containing a window within a mock-timbered first-floor bay adjoining a boundary wall.

The north-east elevation has a slightly recessed bay to the right of centre, featuring a door at ground floor and single windows to each floor above. There is a broad, blank gable to the left. The north-west (Eastgate) elevation has a prominent gable to the outer left with two windows to the first floor and attic, flanked by boundary walls. There is a door and window within a small lean-to bay on the return to the left, and a further window to the right at first floor. A single window is located to the ground floor left of centre, with a tiny window to the outer left at first floor. A lower bay to the right contains two windows to each floor. A later, harled, flat-roofed bay extends to the outer right with a door at ground floor and a window above. The south-west elevation features two small windows to the gablehead over the flat-roofed bay.

Windows feature an 8 and 12-pane glazing pattern within timber sash and case frames. The roof is covered with graded slates. The chimneys are of coped ashlar, topped with thackstanes and cans, and include ashlar-coped skews.

The interior retains a good decorative scheme, including timber panelling, 6-panelled doors, plain cornicing, and shutters. Pointed- and round-headed arches are present, along with niches. A northeast-facing first-floor room has Ionic, fluted pilasters framing a roll-moulded fireplace, below a panelled overmantel with a Venetian mural (now covered by hardboard) and a mutuled cornice. The first-floor drawing room is panelled with Memel (memmel) pine. Connected to the main house is a small, rectangular-plan, pantiled rubble stable, possibly of earlier origin. It features a diminutive, pantiled timber gablehead that juts out to the side (formerly housing a winch to a loft).