Nether Grange, 68 Kirkbank Road, Burntisland

Nether Grange is a Scottish Arts and Crafts house, likely built around 1911. The exterior is predominantly harled with rusticated ashlar detailing, polished quoins, and stone cills. It features an eaves course, mutules, architraved windows, and stone mullions.

The north (entrance) elevation is characterized by a single step with flanking walls and ball finials, leading to an engaged turret to the right of centre. This turret has a deep-set two-leaf timber door within a heavily moulded doorcase, sheltered by a square hoodmould enclosing a raised tablet with flanking ‘C’ scrolls, and narrow lights on returns to the right and left. A small paired window is located immediately to the left of the turret, with a glazed oculus beyond, and a further window to the left. An advanced, piend-roofed wing extends to the outer left with three windows and a smaller window on its return to the right. The first floor of the turret has a pedimented window below a mutulled cornice and a lead, bellcast roof topped with a ball finial and wrought-iron weathervane. The returns feature a narrow window, while the crowstepped gable to the right has two irregular windows. To the left is a tripartite mullioned and transomed Elizabethan window with leaded lights, and a smaller paired window, all below a stone parapet. The advancing wing on the outer left also has a pedimented window, with a thistle breaking the eaves on the gablehead, and a return to the right. A wide, basket-arched entrance is found in a single-storey extension, likely a later conversion, adjoining the elevation to the left.

The south elevation presents five bays and includes a large, single-storey, rectangular-plan conservatory with a piend and platformed roof, featuring modern roof lights and a part-glazed door with flanking windows at the centre. Full-height, chamfered windows are set into the gableheads, breaking the eaves, while a full-height, piended, chamfered window is located on the outer right and a window sits at first floor in the bay to the outer left.

The west elevation showcases a large crowstepped gable to the right, with a crenellated bow window on both floors and a small light to the left at ground level, with a further window to the outer left.

The east elevation features a large crowstepped gable to the left, incorporating a French window on the outer left and a window to the right at first floor. A small window is positioned to the right at ground level, adjacent to a projecting, square-arched entrance extension to the right of a small window to the left, with dormer-headed windows breaking the eaves to the right.

The windows throughout employ a small-pane glazing pattern in timber sash and case, casement, top-opening styles, and fixed windows with leaded lights. The roof is covered in red clay pantiles. Distinctive architectural details include ashlar coped skews, beak and mitre skewputts and finials, and ashlar coped stacks with batter and clay cans. The interior was unexamined in 1994.

A dovecot stands to the north of the house. It is a random rubble, crenellated circular tower with winding stone steps leading to a round-headed timber door with a relieving arch to the west. Small gunloop-like openings are located at approximately doorhead level and a nesting hole sits above, with a platform to the south.

The formal garden features low, flat-coped rubble terrace walls leading to an enclosed, rectangular area with high hedging. A circular stone pond is present, along with decorative cast-iron gates to the north and south. A long terrace wall extends to the east, featuring piers. Coped ashlar gatepiers with ball finials, decorative cast-iron gates, and artificial stone boundary walls with coped piers complete the setting.