The Foyer, Bridge Street, Kirkcaldy

The Foyer is a former spinning mill built between 1855 and 1857, and subsequently converted in 1996 into flats, offices, training and seminar facilities, and a restaurant by The Link Housing Association. It is a three-storey and attic, fifteen-bay, rectangular building with a Gothic quatrefoil design featuring oculi, a moulded niche, ball finials, a shaped gable, a mansard roof, and a cast-iron Doric colonnade. The exterior is constructed of rubble stone with contrasting large ashlar quoins, with a third-floor cornice and eaves cornice. Segmental-headed openings, relieving arches, and stone mullions are present.

The south elevation (the principal facade) features a broad, arched, part-glazed doorway covering the three outer right bays at ground level. Three windows are positioned to the left, followed by two two-leaf doors and another window. To the outer left is a six-bay colonnade, now blocked with windows set into the centre two bays, and further two-leaf doors and smaller windows to the outer bays. The fenestration is regular on each floor, extending to the attic with small windows close to the eaves and rooflights above each bay. Six traditional ventilators are retained at the ridge.

The east elevation has four windows on each floor, with two windows centrally positioned beneath a shaped gable featuring oculi and a decorative niche above a ball finial. Further finials are present on the outer corners.

The west elevation (facing Bridge Street) includes an advanced, piended stair tower to the outer left, with a door at ground level and a window on each floor. A slightly advanced piended bay is located centrally, featuring two doors at ground level and windows (converted from former gable hoist doors) on each floor. A blocked segmental-headed opening is visible in the gablehead.

The north elevation (facing Tiel Burn) is a fourteen-bay design, with two vertically aligned, two-tiered tripartite windows, representing a former double beam engine house, in the two outer left bays. Twelve windows are situated to the right, with regular fenestration on each floor and in the attic.

The building incorporates eight-pane glazing in timber casement windows, while pivotal attic windows and rooflights feature plate glass. Grey slates cover the roof, accompanied by coped ashlar skews and finials.

The interior retains a cast-iron frame, with posts and beams socketed at column heads, exposed stone work, and brick barrel-vaults, particularly visible in the restaurant area. A west stair displays three exposed beams and segmental windowheads. Decorative cast-iron trusses are found in the top-floor conference room. Floors are covered with timber batons, and walls are strapped and lined over the cast-iron frame.