Grange

Grange is a house of 16th-century origin, with a later 19th-century addition. It is two storeys with a basement and attic, comprising a three-bay laird's house with a conically-roofed round tower, and a taller, two-storey, basement wing of rectangular plan. The exterior is a mix of harl, stugged squared and snecked rubble, and coursed rubble with stone margins and stugged ashlar quoins. The round tower has stone bands. Stone mullions and chamfered arrises are present.

The principal (SE) elevation features a window to the right of centre, and a canted three-light basement window to the left. A stair oversails the basement recess in the centre bay, leading up to a pilastered doorpiece with a corniced blocking course, a panelled timber door and a semicircular fanlight. A canted four-light window is present in the bay to the left, and a window to the right. Three small bipartite windows are located close to the eaves at the first floor, with a pedimented timber dormer window above the left bay. A later gabled wing projects to the outer right, featuring a four-light canted window at ground level and a bipartite window above.

The rear (NW) elevation is asymmetrically fenestrated and incorporates a variety of features, including a three-stage round tower to the outer left, with a gunloop facing northwest and small windows to the northeast. Decoratively astragalled windows are present to the right of centre at the first floor and approximately at the centre of the second floor. A recessed blank gable of the wing is located to the outer left.

The northeast elevation has three small basement windows, windows to the centre and outer right bays at ground level, and a further window to the outer right at the first floor. The southwest elevation is gabled with a window to the outer left at ground floor level.

Largely four-, 12-pane and plate glass glazing patterns are found within timber sash and case windows, with Art Nouveau detailed coloured glass in the northeast windows. The roof is covered with grey slates. Chimneys feature coped harl and ashlar stacks with thackstanes and cans, along with ashlar-coped skewes with moulded skewputts, and cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers.

A walled garden is present, enclosed by flat-coped rubble walls to the northeast, along with coped rubble boundary walls and ironwork gates.

The round tower includes a door lintel inscribed '16 ISM 87'. Grange House was historically the seat of the Kirkcaldys of Grange, and may have been built on the site of the 'Fortalice of Grange'. Local records mention a vaulted underground passage supposedly accessible from the round tower. Sir James Kirkcaldy served as Lord High Treasurer of Scotland during the reign of James V, while Sir William was executed and his land forfeited in 1573.