99-101 Appin Crescent, Dunfermline

A 2-storey L-plan tenement block built in 1904 by Andrew Scobie, originally serving as a co-operative building with shopfrontage to most of the ground floor. The building is located at the junction of Appin Crescent and Couston Street in Dunfermline.

The principal elevations (north and east) feature coursed stugged sandstone with ashlar dressings and an ashlar ground floor, a base course and eaves band, and a deep moulded cornice above the ground floor. The remainder is coursed snecked sandstone. Thick roll-moulded cills run beneath the shop window openings. A piended grey slate roof covers the structure, with a pair of ridge stacks to the main wing, a pair of shouldered wallhead stacks (one to the north side and one to the east side), and a gablehead stack to the east elevation; all are corniced with friezes and have round cans where they exist.

The architectural detailing is free Edwardian Baroque in character. An angled bay with an oriel window marks the junction between the principal elevations, topped with a bell-cast lead roof and deep corniced and bracketed panelled parapet. The oriel is mullioned and tripartite, and a panel at its centre is inscribed 'BRANCH OF THE DUNFERMLINE CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY LIMITED 1904'. Ball-finialled breaking-eaves semicircular pediments cap mullioned first-floor bipartite windows, some with pendant mouldings to the centre.

The north elevation comprises 10 bays. The main shop entrance occupies the angled corner bay, featuring a moulded segmental-headed surround with elongated keystone and a part-glazed 2-leaf replacement door with fanlight. The keystone continues upward, terminating in a gablet on a corbelled base. The ground-floor shopfront continues across 4 bays to the right, with 3 large display windows divided by pilaster strips and an entrance with a 2-leaf timber door and rectangular fanlight. A fascia runs above, bracketed at the outer right. A window sits in each of the 4 bays to the right (mullioned bipartites to the central ones), with an entrance featuring a 6-panel timber door to the left of that to the outer left. Slightly projecting gables crown the penultimate bays at first-floor level; each is surmounted by a small semicircular pediment scrolled at the base with pendant moulding to the centre and stylised scrolled skewputts, sitting above a mullioned bipartite. Mullioned bipartites to most remaining bays on the first floor are surmounted by semicircular breaking-eaves pediments with ball finials and pendant mouldings to the centre, though the fifth and seventh bays from the left, and that to the outer right, have plain single-light windows.

The east elevation comprises 6 bays. The main shop entrance to the angled corner bay features the oriel window described above. The ground-floor shopfront, with fascia, extends across the entire elevation; a pair of large display windows divided by pilaster strips sits to the right, one to the left, with 2 entrances in between (both with timber doors and rectangular fanlights; that to the left is 2-leaf and panelled) and a vennel entrance to the outer left. A slightly projecting gable at first-floor level crowns the penultimate bay to the right, scrolled to either side of a stack with stylised scrolled skewputts and pendant moulding to the centre, and a stylised cartouche below. Windows occupy each of the remaining bays on the first floor; those to the outer flanking bays are mullioned bipartites surmounted by semicircular pediments with ball finials and pendant mouldings to the centre. A bracketed semicircular pediment sits at the base of the stack to the centre.

The shopfront features 3-pane plate glass windows, some of which are blocked. Elsewhere, the windows comprise 2-pane timber sash and case windows and replacement UPVC windows.