Rossend Castle Lodge, 4 Melville Gardens, Burntisland

Dated 1816, Rossend Castle Lodge is a two-storey, T-plan building originally designed as a Tudor gate lodge with service quarters, now converted into flats. The lodge is constructed of coursed rubble, with droved quoins. A base course is present, along with a corbel table and a crenellated parapet finished with an eaves cornice. Hoodmoulds feature angled stops over openings that are round-headed, segmental-arched, and have 4-centred arches. These openings are set within bracketed architraved surrounds with voussoirs and stone mullions.

The east (entrance) elevation is symmetrical. A slightly advanced, two-bay central section is taller and features an oval date plaque inscribed with the initials 'ESB' at its centre. Flanking this are hoodmoulded cart arches that have been blocked and now contain paired 4-centred arched windows. The first floor of the central section has a segmental-headed opening to the right and to the left of the centre, beneath the crenellated parapet. A lower wing extends to the right, with a round-headed timber door at its centre, flanked by small round-headed windows, all under a stepped hoodmould. Segmental-arched windows are present in the bays to the right and left of the entrance. The first floor of this wing has a small segmental-headed window at the centre and further segmental-headed windows in the flanking bays which break the lines of the crenellated parapet. A low pavilion is positioned to the outer right. A matching wing and pavilion extend to the left of the centre.

The west elevation has a projecting central arm with a blind outer elevation. It features three windows and a two-leaf timber door with a plate glass fanlight at ground level. A return to the right features three windows and a timber door with a plate glass fanlight and a forestair to the first floor. The return to the left has three irregular windows at ground level and four windows at first floor level. A recess to the right of the centre contains a window to the left at ground level, a small window at centre, and another window to the right. A modern forestair leads to a first-floor door on the left side, and a bipartite window with a dormerhead breaks the eaves to the right. A single-storey pavilion is located to the outer right with a blind lean-to extension across its full width. A recess to the left of the centre has a modern forestair leading to a timber door and two irregular windows at ground level to the left, with a small window at centre above. A single-storey pavilion is positioned to the outer left with a window.

The north elevation has a blind wall of a single-storey pavilion with a window to the left above.

The south elevation has a window in a single-storey pavilion with a blind wall above.

The windows have a 6- and 8-pane glazing pattern in the upper sashes over 2-pane lower sashes in timber sash and case windows, and plate glass glazing in fixed windows. The roof is covered with graded grey slates. Low coped ashlar stacks have cans, the roof features ashlar coped skews, and cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers are present.