Newton House, 46 Nicol Street, Kirkcaldy

Newton House, located at 46 Nicol Street in Kirkcaldy, was built in 1816. This two-storey building features a basement and attic, with a five-bay rectangular plan. The exterior is finished in painted ashlar and coursed rubble, with rusticated and dressed ashlar quoins and stone cills. It has a mutuled cornice.

On the east elevation, winding steps to the right of the center lead to a basement door at the center. Wide steps with curved railings on either side lead to a slightly advanced central bay, which has a deep-set timber door, a decorative astragalled fanlight, and flanking narrow lights, all beneath a fluted frieze and cavetto cornice. There are two windows on each side of the center bay, and the first floor features regular fenestration, with the center bay topped by a pediment that breaks the eaves.

The west elevation has a basement door in the center, with a bipartite window to the right. Steps with dwarf walls lead to a blocked door at the center ground, with a small opening to the right and windows in the flanking bays. The first floor has regular fenestration, and there are piended, slate-hung, tripartite dormer windows over the outer bays.

The north elevation includes a single-storey, piend-roofed former stable, which is not included in this listing. The windows throughout feature a 12-pane glazing pattern in timber sash and case style, while the dormer windows have a 4-pane glazing pattern. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are coped ashlar stacks with polygonal cans and ashlar-coped skews.

Inside, the house boasts decorative plasterwork cornicing and ceiling roses, architraved and dentilled doorways, and panelled shutters. The fireplaces are made of marble, cast iron, and timber. There is a screen door with a decorative astragalled fanlight, and a curving stair with cast-iron balusters and a timber handrail.

The boundary walls and gatepiers consist of low, flat-coped ashlar walls to the east, and semi-circular-coped rubble boundary walls with pyramidal-coped gatepiers to the north.