191 Nicol Street, Kirkcaldy

This building at 191 Nicol Street in Kirkcaldy is a later 19th-century, two-storey and attic house that has been extended and converted into offices. It features a three-bay classical design with a two-bay extension. The exterior is made of narrow stugged ashlar blocks with dressed ashlar long and short quoins and margins, while the rear is constructed from random sandstone rubble and harl. The building has a deep base course, cornice, and blocking courses at the ground floor windows and eaves. The windows include round and segmental-headed openings, with raised lugged margins on the first floor and plain aprons on the ground floor. Notable architectural details include keystones, corbelling, and stone mullions.

On the west (principal) elevation, there is a columned doorcase with a plain frieze and flat consoles above a deep-set panelled timber door, which has a plate glass fanlight to the left of center. To the left, there is a pilastered tripartite window with a decorative frieze, and to the right, a canted round-headed tripartite window with a keystoned center light and smaller flanking lights that are corbelled to the frieze above. Beyond to the right are two bipartite windows in slightly set-back bays. The first floor has regular fenestration, and there is a segmental-headed slate-hung dormer window over the first and third bays.

The east elevation has asymmetrical fenestration, including a round-headed stair window at the center above a low piend-roofed harled extension, and a canted tripartite dormer window flanked by prominent shouldered wallhead stacks.

The north elevation is two-bay, featuring a segmental-headed window that has been altered from a door on the left at ground level, while the windows to the right are blocked. There is a wallhead stack in the center.

On the south elevation, there is a window off-center to the right at ground level and another window in the center at the first floor below a wallhead stack.

The building has a mix of 4-pane, 12-pane, and plate glass glazing patterns in timber sash and case windows, except for the altered door on the north elevation which has top-opening timber windows. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are coped and shouldered ashlar stacks along with cast-iron downpipes featuring decorative rainwater hoppers.

The boundary walls are made of coped rubble.