House, Inverkeithing

This is a house comprising a 17th-century building linked at a right angle to an early 19th-century tenement, with a mutual stair tower connecting the two. The 17th-century section is a three-storey and attic structure of rectangular plan, constructed from random rubble, originally harled, with droved rybats. It features chamfered openings and a crow-stepped gable to the north. The early 19th-century tenement is symmetrical, three bays wide on the first two floors, and five bays wide at ground floor, with a shop fronting onto the High Street. The ground floor is built in painted ashlar, while the upper floors are of squared sandstone rubble, with a string course, stone cills, and quoin strips. Bowed dormers are present, and a full-height round stair tower is situated at the rear.

The east (High Street) elevation of the 19th-century tenement features a centrally-right off-centre door flanked by windows, with a further window to the far left and a close door to the far right. There are three windows on each of the first and second floors. Bowed, slate-hung dormers are positioned on the outer bays, with a central roof light. The north (side) elevation shows the 19th-century tenement adjoining number 77 High Street. A three-stage, full-height, round stair tower is located at the re-entrant angle, with a small window at the first stage and single windows to the second and third stages, topped with a conical roof. A lean-to brick coal shed, now boarded up, abuts the tower. The 17th-century section has a central window on each of the first and second floors, and two late 20th-century roof lights are visible. On the west (rear) elevation is the gable end of the 17th-century block, with a blocked ground floor window and two windows at the first and second floors along the outer edge, complemented by two small square attic windows. The south (side) elevation, partially visible, adjoins number 83 High Street, with a window visible on each of the first and second floors. A wide cat-slide dormer sits centrally, and a roof light is to the left.

The 19th-century tenement has 12-pane timber sash and case windows, while the 17th-century section has 4- and 8-pane timber sash and case windows, with 6-pane timber casement windows on the first floor. The roofs are pitched and covered with grey slates. The 17th-century north gable features beaked skewputts, while the 19th-century tenement has straight stone skews. Coped ashlar stacks are present at the gableheads; the 17th-century stack to the north was rebuilt in 1979-1980, and there is a ridge stack at the juncture with the 19th-century tenement. The interior of the 19th-century tenement contains a turnpike stone stair with cast-iron balusters, window openings with original shutters, but little of the original fabric remains elsewhere.

Adjacent to the house is an early 19th-century, one-and-a-half-storey, square-plan, lean-to wash house constructed of squared rubble with droved ashlar quoins and straight ashlar skews. It has a door and two small windows to the east, a blocked window to the west, a concrete tiled roof, a coped ashlar chimney, and octagonal clay cans. A stone coped boundary wall surrounds the property to the north, west, and south. A square-plan ashlar pier with a ball finial and cast-iron railings, incorporating flèche finials, is set into the north wall.