Newton House, 46 Nicol Street, Kirkcaldy

1. 2-storey, basement and attic, 5-bay, rectangular-plan classical house on ground falling to S. Painted ashlar and coursed rubble, rusticated and dressed ashlar quoins, stone cills. Mutuled cornice.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: winding steps to right of centre lead to basement door at centre: wide steps with flanking curved railings oversailing basement lead to slightly advanced centre bay with deep-set timber door, decorative-astragalled fanlight and flanking adjacent narrow lights all below fluted frieze and cavetto cornice, 2 windows each to right and left of centre; regular fenestration to 1st floor, centre bay with pediment breaking eaves.

W ELEVATION: basement door to centre with bipartite window to right; steps with flanking dwarf walls lead to blocked door at centre ground with small opening to right and windows in flanking bays, regular fenestration to 1st floor and piended, slate-hung, tripartite dormer windows over outer bays.

N ELEVATION: single storey, piend-roofed former stable (not included in this listing) to ground.

12-pane glazing pattern in timber sash and case windows; 4-pane glazing pattern to dormer windows. Grey slates. Coped ashlar stacks with polygonal cans and ashlar-coped skews.

INTERIOR: decorative plasterwork cornicing and ceiling roses; architraved and dentilled doorways, and panelled shutters; marble, cast-iron and timber fireplaces. Screen door with decorative- astragalled fanlight, curving stair with cast-iron balusters and timber handrail.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: low, flat-coped ashlar walls to E; semi- circular-coped rubble boundary walls and pyramidal-coped gatepiers to N.