Bennochy Cemetery, Bennochy Road, Kirkcaldy

This is a late 19th-century lodge situated at the west end of Bennochy Cemetery, Kirkcaldy, with an initial construction around 1860 and an extension circa 1890. It is a single-storey and attic building with a gabled, domestic gothic architectural style. The lodge is built of squared and snecked rubble stone with ashlar dressings, featuring a deep base course and eaves course. Architectural details include pointed-arch doorways, segmental-headed windows with relieving arches, splayed cills, stop-chamfered arrises, and stone mullions.

The west-facing elevation, fronting Bennochy Road, has three bays. A boarded timber door sits to the left of a projecting, higher-gabled bay containing a tripartite window at ground level and a bipartite window in the gablehead. To the right is a lower, advanced bay with a raised centre tripartite window. The centre light of the tripartite window breaks through the eaves into an elaborately moulded and finialled dormer gable in the steeply pitched roof.

The north elevation includes an advanced gable to the right with a timber door and small window at ground level, two windows in the gablehead, and a further door in the re-entrant angle to the left. The east elevation also features an advanced gable to the right with a bipartite window and flanking lower windows, with a lower, flat-roofed bay to the left containing a door and window.

The south-facing elevation, bordering Balsusney Road, has a low, blind gable to the left and a flat-roofed bay to the right with a bipartite window. The windows are mostly timber sash and case with plate glass glazing, alongside fixed windows. The roof is covered with graded grey slates. Notable features include a dominant rendered wallhead stack, a small coped rubble stack, stepped ashlar-coped skews with gablet skewputts, and stone gable finials. Cast-iron downpipes are fitted with decorative rainwater hoppers and fixings.

Boundary walls constructed of semicircular-coped rubble surround the property, with lower, saddleback-coped walls to Balsusney Road. The main entrance is located on Balsusney Road and is flanked by square-section gatepiers with mutuled, corniced, and pyramidal copings, and decorative cast-iron gates. The Bennochy Road entrance features similarly styled gatepiers with moulded copes displaying quatrefoil detail.

The west garden contains a variety of classical and gothic gravestones. Among these is a two-stage white marble edifice with battered buttresses, a pointed-arch stage with a heavy hoodmould and foliated label-stops, commemorating Lindsay Deas ARAM, who died in 1885. Another monument, in a ‘Greek’ Thomsonesque style, features a large pedimented ashlar stone rising above the wallhead with a high-relief bronze bust signed by C MacCallum, dedicated to John Alexander, who established a Free Church in 1843 and died in 1868. A white marble sarcophagus commemorates Mrs Michael Nairn, who died in 1896. A corniced ashlar stone commemorating Michael Beveridge of Beechwood and his wives sits on the east wall.

The east garden's northeast corner includes a family monument, dating from around 1895, constructed of red sandstone ashlar with Ionic pilasters and a round-headed niche housing a damaged seated figure of Harpocrates.