Kirkcaldy Peoples Club And Institute, 42 High Street, Kirkcaldy

The Kirkcaldy Peoples Club and Institute, located at 42 High Street in Kirkcaldy, dates from the earlier to mid-19th century and was extended in 1909. It is a three-storey building with an attic and features four bays, including a shop on the ground floor. The structure is made of polished ashlar and coursed rubble, with a red brick extension. Architectural details include a cornice at the ground floor, a cill course at the first floor, and an eaves cornice with a blocking course.

On the north elevation facing High Street, there is a modern shop front with an unsympathetic fascia. Above the cornice, there is a name board that reads 'BILLIARDS POOL SNOOKER', and the upper floors have regular fenestration. The west elevation, facing Glasswork Street, showcases a variety of architectural elements, including a broad gabled bay on the left with three windows on each floor (the ground and left windows are blocked) and a smaller window in the gablehead. The central section features an advanced, flat-roofed bay with steps leading up to a timber door on the left side, asymmetrical fenestration, a small round-headed window on the right return over a lower bay, and a dormer-headed window that breaks the eaves. An extension is located on the outer right.

The south elevation consists of a piend-roofed brick extension with three open bays divided by brick piers and three prominent piended roof lights. The windows throughout mainly feature a four-pane glazing pattern in timber sash and case style, and the roof is covered with grey slates. The building has coped ashlar stacks and ashlar-coped skews.

Inside the Kirkcaldy Peoples Club and Institute, there is a well-designed staircase with decorative cast-iron balusters and a timber handrail, along with some decorative cornicing, a timber fireplace, and working shutters. The L-plan billiard hall includes a boarded dado, some cast-iron radiators, timber fireplaces, rounded corners that are corbelled to square, and a deeply coombed ceiling with chevron boarding and corbelled brackets supporting the rafters. There are five piended skylights, which are now blocked from below.