Ravensheugh, 84 Loughborough Road, Kirkcaldy

Ravensheugh is a villa dated 1877, accompanied by a single-storey wing to the north. The main part of the building is two storeys with three gables. It's constructed from narrow sandstone ashlar blocks with raised ashlar quoins and polished dressings, while the north and east sides incorporate coursed and snecked rubble, and the wing uses stugged and squared Aberdeen bond rubble. A chamfered ashlar base course and a moulded dividing course are visible on the west and south sides. Segmental-headed openings are present on the ground floors of the west and south elevations, featuring corbels. The windows have stone transoms and mullions, with moulded arrises; the wing features stop-chamfered arrises.

The west (principal) elevation has a central bay with a segmental-headed, keystoned portico supported by stiff-leaf columns and a pilastered doorway leading to a two-leaf panelled timber door with plate glass fanlight. Above the door, a cavetto cornice gives way to urn balusters flanked by stone dies, with a window on the first floor. Bipartite windows with stiff-leaf-capitalled colonnettes are located on each floor to the left, while an advanced gabled bay to the right features a full-height canted tripartite window. The centre light of the first-floor window has a segmental head bearing a shell motif, corbelled to square into the gablehead with a monogrammed panel.

The south elevation showcases a broad, slightly advanced gabled bay to the right of the centre with a canted tripartite window at ground level and a bipartite window above, also with a monogrammed panel in the gablehead. Three windows are present on the left at ground level, with a tripartite window above, featuring a dormer gablehead, also monogrammed. All first-floor mullions are consistent. A single-storey extension adjoins the outer right.

The north elevation has a small ground-floor window centrally positioned, with a dominant traceried stair window above. A plain chimney gable is to the right, with a single-storey wing projecting to the left.

The wing has a piend and platform roof. Its west elevation includes a shouldered doorway with a panelled timber door fitted with a plate glass fanlight, and a finialled dormer gablehead in the centre, flanked by two windows. The north side is asymmetrical, with an additional window and a shouldered wallhead stack to the east. The east elevation is asymmetrical, with stacked detailing to the left.

The windows are mostly plate glass in timber sash and case frames, except for the colourful multi-pane glazing within the stair window. The roof is slate, with cavetto-coped, shouldered ashlar stacks surmounted by clay cans, some of which are ornately decorated. Deeply overhanging eaves feature filigree bargeboarding on the south and west sides, and plain bargeboarding on the north side, with decorative cast-iron finials.

The interior includes a screen door with etched glass, leading to a hall with a dog-leg staircase, which incorporates timber barley twist balusters and ornately finialled newel posts. A traceried, coloured and leaded stair window and a coffered ceiling are also present. The first-floor drawing room displays richly moulded plasterwork, while the dining room features picture frame mouldings and a mutuled cornice. Other interior details incorporate panelled timber shutters and architraved doorcases.

The property is enclosed by coped rubble boundary walls, with coped ashlar gatepiers and decorative cast-iron gates.