The Foyer, Bridge Street, Kirkcaldy

1855-57; converted to flats, office, training and seminar facilities, and restaurant 1996 by The Link Housing Association. 3-storey and attic, 15-bay, rectangular-plan former spinning mill with gothic quatrefoil oculi, moulded niche, ball finials, shaped gable, mansard roof and cast-iron Doric colonnade. Rubble with large contrasting ashlar quoins. 3rd floor cornice and eaves cornice. Segmental-headed opening, relieving arches and stone mullions.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: broad arched part-glazed doorway to 3 outer right bays at ground, 3 windows to left, 2 2-leaf doors and further window beyond to left and 6-bay colonnade to outer left, blocked

with windows to centre 2 bays, flanking 2-leaf doors and small windows to outer bays. Regular fenestration to each floor above and to attic with small windows close to eaves and rooflights over each bay;

6 traditional ventilators retained at ridge.

E ELEVATION: 4 windows to each floor; 2 windows to centre with flanking oculi in shaped gable, and decorative niche in gablehead bellow ball finial, further finials to outer corners.

W (BRIDGE STREET) ELEVATION: advanced piended stair tower to outer left with door to left at ground and window to each floor, all on return to right; slightly advanced piended bay to centre with 2 doors at ground and window (converted from gable hoist doors) to each floor. Blocked segmental-headed opening in gablehead.

N (TIEL BURN) ELEVATION: 14-bay. 2 vertically aligned 2-tiered tripartite windows, (former double beam engine house) to each of

2 outer left bays, 12 windows to right with regular fenestration to each floor and attic above.

8-pane glazing pattern in timber casement windows; plate glass glazing in pivotal attic windows and rooflights. Grey slates. Coped ashlar skews and finials.

INTERIOR: cast-iron frame with posts and beams socketed at column heads, stone work and brick barrel-vaults left exposed in restaurant;

W stair with 3 exposed beams and segmental windowheads; decorative cast-iron trusses in top floor conference room. Floors covered with timber batons and walls strapped and lined over cast-iron frame.