33 Townhill Road, Dunfermline

This is a mid-19th century villa, altered and extended to the east in the late 19th century. It is an asymmetrical, detached house built in a Jacobean style, characterised by obelisk-finialled shaped gables and canted windows to its main, south-facing elevation. The villa is constructed of coursed, stugged sandstone, with droved ashlar dressings. Some areas at the rear exhibit less finely coursed sandstone, partly cherry-caulked. A base course and architraved openings feature on the main and west elevations, with an eaves band present on most parts. Coped gables have shaped skewputts.

The south elevation presents a four-bay arrangement. A narrow entrance bay is centrally positioned, topped by an obelisk-finialled shaped gable. The round-arched entrance is flanked by pilasters recessed within an ashlar architrave with a hood-like cornice, and features a panelled timber door with a fanlight. A decorative crest band sits above the entrance, aligning with the sill of the first-floor window and surmounted by a crest. A late 19th-century canted window, composed of three mullioned panes, includes a moulded parapet-like cornice with crenellation-like pointed segmental-headed panels on each face. A gabled bay to the right has a kneelered gable, and another canted window with a similar cornice and detailing. A single-storey addition, set back to the outer right, has an obelisk-finialled shaped gable-headed corniced breaking-eaves mullioned tripartite, also surmounted by a crest.

The west elevation features an obelisk-finialled, kneelered gabled bay with a window on each floor.

The north elevation has a two-bay section set forward, with a piended-roofed bay to the right containing a round-arched stair window. A small, single-storey, piended-roofed section projects to the left, with two windows, one small, and an entrance to the return. A single bay is set back to the right, showcasing a mullioned bipartite window to the ground floor and a polygonal piended dormer above. A late 19th-century single-storey addition is also set back to the outer left.

The roofs are covered with grey slates. Most windows are multi-pane timber sash and case. There are two gablehead stacks with decorative friezes; one is located on the rear (north) gable of the original block, one on the east addition, a wallhead stack to the east of the original block (at the junction with the east addition), and a ridge stack at the junction with the west bay. All stacks are corniced with friezes, and topped with round and octagonal cans.

The interior was not inspected in 1999.