Compton House, Coaltown Road, Markinch

Compton House, located on Coaltown Road in Markinch, dates from the mid to later 19th century and is a two-storey, three-bay rectangular-plan former manse. It is built from dressed, squared, and snecked rubble, featuring long and short ashlar quoins. Architectural details include an eaves course, Tudor-style hoodmoulds, stone mullions, and chamfered reveals.

The west elevation, which serves as the entrance, has a central panelled timber door with a plate glass fanlight beneath a stone canopy supported by block brackets, along with a first-floor window. To the right, there is a slightly advanced gabled bay topped with a finial, which contains a full-height canted bay window and a raked blocking course. To the left of the entrance, there is a hoodmoulded bipartite window at ground floor level and a first-floor window with a finialled and pedimented dormer gablet that breaks the roof eaves.

On the south elevation, there is a ground floor window to the right, while the first floor features a shouldered chimneystack that breaks the roof eaves, positioned off centre to the left, flanked by windows with finialled, curvilinear dormerheads that also break the roof eaves.

The east elevation includes a single-storey, pitch-roofed extension to the left, a ground floor window to the right, a stair window at the centre with border glazing, and another window to the right at first floor level. There is a blank gable to the left and three traditional rooflights. The north elevation is blank with a small lean-to extension to the left.

The windows feature a four-pane glazing pattern in timber sash and case frames on the east side, while the west side has uPVC glazing. The stair window includes coloured margin glazing. The property has coped ashlar chimneystacks with some polygonal cans, ashlar coped skews, moulded skewputts, and finials.

Compton House is enclosed by high, semi-circular, coped rubble boundary walls, with an entrance opening in the west wall from Coaltown Road.