White Swan Hotel, Wellesley Road, Methil

The White Swan Hotel, located on Wellesley Road in Methil, is an early 20th-century building that has undergone later alterations. It is a two-storey structure with an attic and basement, featuring an irregular nine-bay design. The hotel is traditionally detailed with crowstepped and gabled elements, showcasing a Jacobethan porch and a picturesque elevation facing the sea. The exterior is finished in whitewashed harl with painted margins, quoin strips, and dressings, and includes a base course. The building features some round-headed openings and stone mullions.

On the northwest (principal) elevation, there is a porch positioned to the left of center, which includes a bipartite window flanked by round-headed doorways. Each doorway has a deep-set panelled timber door, a blocked semicircular fanlight, and flanking finialled pilasters. Above, a full-width cavetto cornice is topped by crowstepped pediments, with the central one being taller, finialled, and adorned with a cartouche depicting a white swan. The outer pediments are inscribed with the words 'WHITE' and 'HOTEL', and there are moulded panels on each return. To the left of the porch, there are two fixed display windows and an additional window, while to the right, there is a large bipartite window projecting outward. The first-floor windows are grouped in a pattern of 1-2-1-2-3, with the windows in bays 2-3 and 5-6 leading to nepus gables, each featuring a small round-headed window. A 'tower' gable rises from the roof between the nepus gables, containing two small round-headed windows and a blind oculus.

The southeast (seaward) elevation presents an asymmetrical design with various elements, including a tower located to the right of center that has two round-headed windows at the attic level, a blind oculus, and paired stacks. There is a nepus gable in the penultimate bay to the left and a broad advanced gable with additional projecting window bays on the outer right.

On the southwest elevation, there are two large bipartite windows projecting from each floor, featuring canted angles at the ground level, along with a window on each return above. A blocked round-headed window is situated in the ball-finialled gable.

The northeast elevation includes two windows on each floor and a gablehead stack. The windows feature 8-, 10-, and plate glass glazing patterns in timber sash and case frames, except where noted, and in the top-opening bipartite windows. The roof is covered with red tiles, and the stacks are coped, harled, and margined, with cans.

The interior was not seen in 1998.