Kirkcaldy Peoples Club And Institute, 42 High Street, Kirkcaldy

Earlier to mid 19th century, extended 1909. 3-storey and attic, 4-bay club with shop at ground. Polished ashlar and coursed rubble with red brick extension. Ground floor cornice, 1st floor cill course and eaves cornice with blocking course.

N (HIGH STREET) ELEVATION: modern shop to ground with unsympathetic fascia. Further name board above cornice, worded 'BILLIARDS POOL SNOOKER', and regular fenestration to each floor above.

W (GLASSWORK STREET) ELEVATION: variety of elements including broad gabled bay to left with 3 windows to each floor (those to ground and left blocked), and smaller window to left in gablehead; advanced, flat-roofed bay to centre with steps up to timber door on return to left, asymmetrical fenestration including small round-headed window on return to right over lower bay with window to each floor and dormer headed window breaking eaves. Extension to outer right.

S ELEVATION: piend-roofed brick extension with 3 open bays divided by brick piers and 3 dominant piended roof lights.

Mainly 4-pane glazing pattern in timber sash and case windows. Grey slates. Coped ashlar stacks and ashlar-coped skews.

INTERIOR: Kirkcaldy Peoples Club & Institute: well stair with decorative cast-iron balusters and timber handrail; some decorative cornicing; timber fireplace and working shutters. L-plan billiard hall with boarded dado, some cast-iron radiators, timber fireplaces, rounded corner corbelled to square and deeply coombed, chevron-boarded ceiling with corbelled brackets to rafters, open-beam roof with decorative cast-iron arch braces. 5 piended skylights now blocked from below.