Former Inverkeithing Primary School, Roods Road, Inverkeithing

Designed by Andrew Scobie in 1874, the former Inverkeithing Primary School is a single-storey, symmetrical building constructed as a plain Tudor-style Board School. It follows an H-plan, with ten bays and prominent gabled sections. The principal (east) elevation is largely constructed of squared and coursed whinstone, while the remainder of the building is in snecked rubble. The school features an ashlar basecourse, droved ashlar quoins, rybats, and dressings.

The east elevation is symmetrical, with a slightly advanced central gabled bay topped with a finial. This bay contains tripartite transomed and mullioned windows with scrolled label stops. To the left are three transomed windows, and to the far left, a wide gabled bay with a hoodmoulded four-light transomed and mullioned window, also with scrolled label stops. A recessed gabled bay with bipartite transomed and mullioned windows is located to the penultimate bay on the left. An advanced piended two-bay section with transomed windows is situated to the left of a Gothic-arched doorway that has a shaped hoodmould recessed to the left return. The right section of the east elevation mirrors this arrangement.

The north elevation, six bays wide, has a door with a fanlight and sidelight inserted into what was formerly a window opening on the far left, followed by five evenly spaced windows. The ground level slopes to the east.

The rear (west) elevation is also symmetrical, with large gabled dormers breaking the eaves above advanced end pavilions, each containing large bipartite windows. A central recessed block of eight bays features a central cement-rendered chimneystack, flanked by three windows. Flat-roofed porches with advanced single-pitch bays are set into the re-entrant angles. A sunken boiler house is advanced to the middle of the central block, alongside a rendered cement boiler stack. The south elevation has six bays evenly spaced with six bipartite windows at the wallhead. The ground also slopes to the east here.

The windows are in a lying pane glazing pattern, although four-pane sash and case windows are present at the rear. The roof is pitched and piended, covered in graded grey slates with moulded ashlar skews and skewputts.

The interior, observed in 2004, largely retains the original classroom layouts. A central schoolroom is flanked by subsidiary classrooms in each wing; the northern wing had been converted into a cafeteria. Tongue and groove timber wainscot is present throughout, although fireplaces have been removed.

Excluded from the listing, in accordance with Section 1 (4A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997, are the early-20th century primary school building, entrance gatepiers and gateways, boundary walls and playshed.