Elgin Cottage, 5 Carnock Road, Dunfermline

Elgin Cottage is an early 19th-century, two-storey, three-bay house located at 5 Carnock Road in Dunfermline. The house features a rendered single-storey wing to the west and another rendered single-storey wing at right angles to the east, creating an L-shaped plan. The principal elevation is constructed of coursed stone, while the remaining walls are made of coursed rubble with slaister harling. The building is set into a slope, with the ground level raised at the north side.

On the south (principal) elevation, there are three tall ground floor windows evenly spaced, with three smaller first-floor windows centered above them. A two-leaf door is situated at the far right. The right wing has a modern canted bay window, which includes two windows facing south and a single window in each return of the bay. There is also a window in the left return of the wing, and the west wing features glazed doors and regular window arrangements.

The west elevation shows garage doors in the gable of the west wing, with the gable of the house partially visible and a first-floor window to the left. The north elevation includes two windows in the west wing and two ground floor windows in the center and left of the main house. The east elevation is partially visible, with windows in the east wing.

The cottage has replacement windows and doors, a piended slate roof with a slight overhang at the eaves, and lead flashing. There is one ridge stack and gable end stacks on each gable, all of which are coped with circular cans. A tall coped ridge stack is present on the east wing.

The interior was not seen in 2000.

Additionally, there is a later 19th-century greenhouse situated to the south of the house. This greenhouse is constructed of timber and glass, with a concrete-covered base and concrete paving inside. It features ornate metal apex brackets and a turning pin mechanism for opening the windows. The north door has a pediment that projects out of the roof to form a dormer, complete with a finial and colored glass squares in the tympanum. The greenhouse also has decorative gable finials and cresting.

The property is enclosed by a low rubble boundary wall with curved coping, which runs from the northwest gable of the house to the west. There are a pair of small corniced gatepiers to the west (without a gate) and tall corniced piers to the east, along with timber gates.