Compton House, Coaltown Road, Markinch

Dating from the mid to later 19th century, Compton House is a two-storey, three-bay, rectangular-plan former manse. It is constructed in dressed, squared and snecked rubble with long and short ashlar quoins. It has an eaves course, Tudor-style hoodmoulds and stone mullions and chamfered reveals.

The west (entrance) elevation has a central, panelled timber door with a plate glass fanlight below a stone canopy with block brackets and a window at the first floor. There is a slightly advanced, finialled gabled bay to the right with a full height canted bay window surmounted by a raked blocking course. There is a hoodmoulded, bipartite window to the left of centre at ground floor level and a window at first floor level with a finialled and pedimented dormer gablet breaking the roof eaves.

The south elevation has a window to the right at ground floor level (bay to left not visible). First floor has a shouldered chimneystack breaking the roof eaves, off centre to the left and flanked by windows with finialled, curvilinear dormerheads breaking the roof eaves.

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

Four-pane glazing pattern in timber sash and case frames to east, uPVC glazing to west. Stair window with coloured margin. Coped ashlar chimneystacks with some polygonal cans, ashlar coped skews, moulded skewputts and finials.

The property is enclosed by high, semi-circular, coped rubble boundary walls. There is an entrance opening in the west wall from Coaltown Road.