Rescobie Hotel, Valley Drive, Leslie

The Rescobie Hotel, Leslie, was originally a 2-storey house built in 1928 by McKay and Scott, and subsequently extended and converted into a hotel. The building is dominated by a slate-hung porch, with painted harl cladding, a stone plinth, stone cills, a partial dividing course, balconies, and mullions.

The south elevation, which is the main facade, has four bays. A former doorway has been blocked and replaced with a window within a single-storey conservatory on the far left. The centre features two quadripartite canted windows, with balconies above featuring stone balusters and a parapet. The first floor has tripartite windows, and a ground floor window to the right is paired with a tripartite window above. The bays are divided by almost full-height pilaster-buttresses. Piend-roofed extensions rise from the northeast corner.

The east (entrance) elevation includes an advanced four-bay ground floor with a porch on the far left, flanked by triangular-capped buttresses with a swept roof that becomes a parapet to the first-floor balcony. A deep-set banded ashlar doorcase is present, along with three large windows with neo-Georgian semicircular radial astragals to the right (formerly a conservatory). Below the balustraded balcony sits a window, with a first-floor window and a balcony door to the far right. A modern rooflight is located on the right side of the roof pitch.

The west elevation presents a pilaster-buttress to the left of centre, with narrow windows on both floors, and windows to the right and left at ground level, and to the right at first floor.

The north elevation features a projecting, polygonal, piend-roofed stair tower to the right of centre, with a tall window flanked by narrow lights at an intermediate level. Three windows are present to the left on both ground and first floors, and a further extension is attached to the outer left. To the right are three ground floor windows and one first-floor window. Piend-roofed extensions connect to a former motor house, now converted into a dwelling.

The windows are mainly sash and case with plate glass glazing, although some small-pane glazing is present on the north side. The roof is covered with graded grey slates and includes battered cope harled stacks with cans.

The interior showcases a neo-Georgian decorative scheme. The entrance hall has round-arched openings and round-headed doors with radial astragals. A wooden staircase has paterae to the corniced newel posts, and round-headed niches are found in the dining room. The fireplaces feature blue tiled slips to timber, pilaster-flanked and panelled surrounds, and moulded plaster cornices with paterae ceiling decoration.

Original coped and harled round gatepiers support coped whinstone rubble boundary walls, and low flat-coped walls enclose a formal garden. A bronze sundial, dating around 1928, stands to the north, mounted on a raked, moulded shaft with a chamfered plinth. A formal garden to the south contains a central fountain and coped terrace walls; steps may have originally provided access to the River Leven.