21-23 Kirkgate, Dunfermline

21-23 Kirkgate in Dunfermline is an earlier 19th-century, three-storey and attic, terraced tenement with a basement at the rear and a ground floor shop front. The ground floor features painted V-jointed masonry on the principal (east) elevation, while the upper levels are constructed of coursed dressed droved sandstone and rubble at the rear. The building has stone cills at the second floor, a band course at the first floor cill level, and a banded eaves course. Mid-19th century style dormers were added in 2002.

On the east elevation, there are three plain timber doors at the center, separated by V-jointed pilaster strips, with shop windows on either side and a door on the far left that opens onto a close leading to the rear. The first and second floors each have three windows, and there are two polygonal piended dormers with slate cheeks in the attic.

The north elevation is adjacent to No 17 Kirkgate. The west (rear) elevation is three bays wide, featuring a central basement door and flanking basement doors, with the rightmost door leading to a close. There are central stair windows slightly below the level of each floor and windows in the outer bays, along with a two-light box dormer on the left and a three-light box dormer on the right.

The south elevation has a rendered gable end that adjoins No 25 Kirkgate, which is of lower height and set further back from the street line. The building predominantly features 12-pane timber sash and case windows, with look-a-like uPVC windows in the dormers and tilting rear stair windows. The pitched roof is covered with grey slates, and there is a coped ashlar chimney on the north side and a cement rendered chimney on the south, both with circular clay cans.

Inside, there are early 21st-century shop interiors on either side of the stair leading to the upper flats, and a spiral stone stair is located at the rear of the building.