52 Townsend Place, Kirkcaldy

52 Townsend Place in Kirkcaldy is a house built around 1820, featuring two stories and a basement, with three bays, set on sloping ground within an irregular terrace. The exterior is made of droved ashlar stone, accented with long and short quoins, and includes base and eaves courses. The openings above the basement have architraved surrounds.

On the northern (principal) elevation, a flight of steps leads up to the center bay, which has flanking cast-iron railings that extend over the basement. The center bay features a deep-set panelled timber door with a sunburst-astragalled fanlight above it. There are windows in the flanking bays on both the ground floor and basement, and the first floor has regular fenestration close to the eaves. The right bay has a 19th-century rooflight, and there is another rooflight on the left near the roof ridge.

The timber sash and case windows have a 4-pane glazing pattern. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are coped ashlar stacks with cans, as well as ashlar-coped skews and thackstanes.

The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 1996. The property is enclosed by low saddleback-coped harled boundary walls to the north and coped rubble walls to the south, with cast-iron railings.