27 Balbirnie Street And 2 Betson Street, Markinch

27 Balbirnie Street and 2 Betson Street in Markinch is an early 19th-century, two-storey, three-bay house located on a corner site, part of an irregular terrace to the south and west. The building has been converted into a shop on the ground floor. The front features squared, coursed sandstone, while the gable end is made of coursed rubble, with stone cills, a partial base course, and an eaves course.

On the east elevation, there is a shop occupying the center and the bay to the right, which includes a recessed part-glazed, two-leaf timber door, a plate glass fanlight, and flanking display windows, along with a window in the bay to the left. The first floor has three regular windows positioned close to the eaves.

The north elevation features a gable facing the road, with two display windows spanning the full width at ground level and a window in the bay to the left on the first floor. The windows have a 4-pane glazing pattern and plate glass glazing in timber sash and case frames, with fixed plate glass in the display windows. The roof is covered with graded grey slates, and there are cavetto coped ashlar stacks with some cans, ashlar coped skews, ropework scrolled skewputts, and thackstanes.