Green Tree Tavern, 42-44 High Street, Burntisland

The Green Tree Tavern, located at 42-44 High Street in Burntisland, dates back to 1884. This three-storey building is designed in a Baronial style and forms part of an irregular terrace, originally featuring a tavern on the ground floor. It has finialled gabled dormerheads and a circular turret. The ground floor is finished in droved ashlar, while the rear is constructed with squared and snecked whinstone. Notable architectural elements include a base course, a cornice above the ground floor, a stepped design over the doorways, and a moulded string course that suggests a jettied second floor. The eaves cornice, roll-moulded lintels at the ground floor, and stop-chamfered arrises at the first and second floors, which are shouldered at the first floor, add to its character.

On the northwest corner elevation, there is a moulded doorcase that has been converted into a window opening, flanked by colonnettes beneath a gabled panel featuring a sculpted tree. A plaque inscribed "DW 1884" is located at the second floor. The corner is chamfered, with a tall narrow window at the ground level, and an angle turret that is corbelled above the ground floor, featuring windows at both the first and second floors topped with a conical roof.

The north elevation, facing High Street, has paired two-leaf panelled timber doors with plate glass fanlights at the centre, with the left door leading to the tenement. To the right are two large windows, while to the left is another two-leaf panelled door with a plate glass fanlight and flanking large windows. The first and second floors feature two windows to the right of centre and two widely spaced windows to the left. The second floor has gabled dormerheads that break the eaves, with a recessed bay on the outer left that includes a pend at ground level and regular fenestration above.

The south elevation displays irregular fenestration, with a pend to the outer right and a large stair window situated between the first and second floors, slightly right of centre.

The building features replacement glazing in the timber windows for the tavern, with a four- and eight-pane glazing pattern in the timber sash and case windows elsewhere. The turret has curved glazing, and the stair window contains 18-pane glazing. The roof is covered with grey slates, featuring a fish-scale pattern on the turret, and there are ashlar coped skews and ball finials, along with coped ashlar stacks topped with cans and a decorative cast-iron weather-vane.

Inside, as observed in 2009, there is a stone staircase leading to the dwellings, which partly retains a decorative cast-iron balustrade with a wooden handrail. The top floor flat does not have any notable interior features, and the original room plan is no longer extant.