Victoria Hotel, Victoria Road, Kirkcaldy

The Victoria Hotel, located on Victoria Road in Kirkcaldy, was built in 1880 with a northern wing added in 1899. This two-storey, three-bay villa features a striking interior. The exterior is constructed from stugged squared and snecked rubble, accented with ashlar dressings and tabbed quoin strips. It has base, band, and eaves courses, along with a round-headed door. Some areas display chamfered arrises, stone transoms, and mullions.

On the south elevation, there is a wide round-headed doorway with a two-leaf panelled timber door, flanked by slips and a radial-astragalled fanlight in the center bay. To the right, there is a tripartite window, and to the left, a canted tripartite window. The first floor has regular fenestration. A modern extension to the outer right is not included in this listing.

The west elevation is asymmetrical and consists of four bays. The bays to the right of the center feature a tripartite window on the ground floor and two windows on the first floor, with a shouldered wallhead stack on the outer right. The 1899 wing to the left of center has a full-height, slightly advanced canted bay with a seven-part transomed window and a cartouche dated 1899 near the eaves on the right. There is a bipartite window on each floor to the left. A modern extension to the outer left is also not included in this listing.

The windows are timber sash and case with small-pane, margined glazing, except for the west wing on the ground floor, which has plate glass glazing. The roof is covered with grey slates, and the cavetto-coped ashlar stacks have polygonal cans. There are cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers.

Inside, the hotel features some decorative plasterwork on the ground floor and vestibule ceiling. A notable feature is the elaborately carved and finialled dog-leg stair, dated 1886, along with dado panelling, a margined roof-light, and a coloured glass stair window depicting the four seasons around a central panel. The ground floor rooms on the west side are panelled and include carved fireplaces. The southwest room has a broken pedimented doorcase, while the northwest dining room features fluted pilasters with a carved frieze and a panelled ceiling.