Victoria Hotel, Victoria Road, Kirkcaldy

1880, N wing Williamson & Inglis 1899. 2-storey, 3-bay villa with fine interior. Stugged squared and snecked rubble with ashlar dressings and tabbed quoin strips. Base, band and eaves courses. Round-headed door. Some chamfered arrises, stone transoms and mullions.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: wide round-headed doorway with 2-leaf panelled timber door, flanking slips and radial-astragalled fanlight to centre bay, tripartite window in bay to right and canted tripartite window to left; regular fenestration to 1st floor. Modern extension to outer right not included in this listing.

W ELEVATION: asymmetrical, 4-bay. Bays to right of centre with tripartite window to ground and 2 windows to 1st floor; shouldered wallhead stack to outer right. 1899 wing to left of centre with full-height, slightly advanced canted bay with 7-part transomed window, and cartouche dated 1899 close to eaves to right; bipartite window to each floor at left. Modern extension to outer left not included in this listing.

Small-pane, margined glazing except to W wing at ground with plate glass glazing. all in timber sash and case windows. Grey slates. Cavetto-coped ashlar stacks with polygonal cans. Cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers.

INTERIOR: some decorative plasterwork to ground floor and vestibule ceiling; elaborately carved and finialled dog-leg stair dated 1886, dado panelling, margined roof-light and coloured glass stair window depicting 4 seasons around centre panel. Ground floor rooms to W panelled with carved fireplaces, broken pedimented doorcase to SW and fluted pilasters with carved frieze and panelled ceiling to NW dining room.