Burntisland, 251 High Street

245-251 High Street in Burntisland is a tenement building from the later 19th century, featuring two storeys with an attic on one side and three storeys with an attic on the other. The building has six bays and includes shops on the ground floor, which have been partly altered. The ground floor is finished in painted cement render, while the first and second floors are constructed of ashlar stone. Architectural details include corniced doorheads with heavy scrolled consoles, a cornice above the shop fronts, a band course and eaves courses, rusticated quoin strips, and keystoned segmental-heads to the architraved single windows on the first floor. The building also features stop-chamfered arrises and stone mullions.

On the south elevation facing High Street, the two-storey block on the left has three bays. The central door is deeply recessed and panelled, topped with a plate glass fanlight. To the left, there is a shop with a blackened centre display window, flanked by fanlit doors supported by slender columns, and a full-width fascia board. The shop to the right has been modernized to connect with the adjacent shop. The first floor features a canted window on the left and two windows on the right, along with two flat-roofed canted stone dormer windows.

The three-storey block has three bays as well. The central entrance features a round-headed recessed door with a plate glass fanlight. There is a shop to the right of the centre with a recessed door and flanking windows supported by slender columns, while a modern display window is to the left. The first floor has a canted window on the outer right and two windows on the left, with the second floor showcasing a tripartite window on the right and two windows on the left, all with bracketed cills. Additionally, there is an off-centre dormer window and a 19th-century rooflight on the right.

The display windows on the ground floor feature plate glass, while the sash and case windows elsewhere are primarily fitted with traditional glazing, except for the dormer window in the three-storey section, which has a four-pane glazing pattern. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are ashlar stacks.