Former Inverkeithing Primary School, Roods Road, Inverkeithing

Designed by Andrew Scobie in 1874, the former Inverkeithing Primary School is a single-storey, symmetrical, ten-bay, H-plan, plain Tudor-style Board School with prominent gabled bays and hoodmoulded windows and doors. It is predominantly constructed in squared and coursed whinstone to the principal elevation and the remainder is built in snecked rubble. The school has an ashlar basecourse, droved ashlar quoins, rybats and dressings.

Principal (east) elevation: symmetrical. Central, slightly advanced gabled and finialled bay, tripartite transomed and mullioned hoodmoulded windows, scrolled label stops; three transomed windows to left. Slightly recessed gabled bay with bipartite transomed and mullioned windows to penultimate bay left; wide gabled bay to far left with hoodmoulded four-light transomed and mullioned windows, scrolled label stops. Gothic-arched doorway with shaped hoodmould recessed to left return, advanced piended two-bay section with transomed windows to left of doorway. Right section of identical arrangement.

North elevation: six-bay. Door with fanlight and sidelight inserted into former window opening to far left; five evenly spaced windows to right. Ground falling to east.

Rear (west) elevation: symmetrical. Large gabled breaking eaves dormers with slate cheeks to advanced end pavilions, large bipartite windows. Central eight-bay recessed block, central cement-rendered chimneystack, three flanking windows; flat-roofed porches with advanced single pitch bays in re-entrant angles. Sunken boiler house advanced to middle of centre block. Rendered cement boiler stack.

South elevation: six-bay with six bipartite windows to wallhead. Ground falling to east.

The windows are in a lying pane glazing pattern and there are four-pane sash and case windows at the rear. There are pitched and piended roofs with graded grey slates and moulded ashlar skews and skewputts.

Interior (seen 2004): original classroom layouts mostly intact. Typical central schoolroom with subsidiary classrooms to each wing (that to north converted into cafeteria). Tongue and groove timber wainscot throughout. No fireplaces remaining.

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