40 Townsend Place, Kirkcaldy

40 Townsend Place in Kirkcaldy is an early 19th-century, three-storey, four-bay traditional tenement featuring a nepus gable. The building has been altered to include a shop at ground level and is harled with stone margins, showcasing ground floor and eaves cornices, as well as stone mullions.

On the principal elevation, the ground floor hosts a modern shop, while the first and second floors feature a bipartite window to the right of center, a window to the outer right, and two windows to the left. The nepus gable has a window to the right of center.

The east elevation, facing Oswald's Wynd, presents a broad four-bay gable with an adjoining printing works to the outer left, which is not included in the listing. There is a corniced doorway with a deep-set panelled timber door and a small-pane fanlight to the outer left at ground level, accompanied by three windows to the right and four windows on each floor above.

The windows are timber sash and case, featuring 4- and 12-pane glazing patterns. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are coped harled stacks, with the right stack shouldered and equipped with a full complement of cans, some of which are polygonal. The gable features stepped ashlar skews with gablet skewputts. Additionally, there is a cast-iron downpipe with a rainwater hopper.

Inside, at 31 Oswald's Wynd, there are encaustic tiles and decorative cast-iron balusters with a timber handrail.