Stable And Gig House, Antique Shop, 13-15 Commercial Street, Markinch

The building at 13-15 Commercial Street in Markinch, dated 1902, is a two-storey, three-bay rectangular house that includes a shop on the left side of the ground floor and a conservatory extension at the rear. It features a combination of stugged ashlar and harl with long and short quoins, along with a base course, a first-floor cill course, and an eaves course. The windows have roll-moulded surrounds, with segmental heads, and there is a round-headed door complete with a keystone and stone mullions.

On the east elevation, there is a deep-set panelled timber door at the center, which has a semicircular plate glass fanlight above it. Just above, there is a border-glazed stair window with a carved scrollwork panel dated 1902. The right of center bay has bipartite windows on both floors. The traditional timber shop front to the left of center features a part-glazed timber door with a plate glass fanlight, set in a deeply inset entrance with a splayed display window to the right and a rendered apron below. The window head has a boarded timber pelmet with a scalloped edge, flanked by pilasters with scroll and floreate capitals and a corniced frieze. There is another bipartite window on the first floor.

The south elevation has one window at both the outer right and left on the first floor. The west elevation features a modern conservatory extension built on a breeze block base, with irregular fenestration on the first floor. The north elevation is blank.

Inside, there is a timber stair window with etched glass and colored margins, while the rear features plate glass glazing in timber sash and case windows at the ground and basement levels, as well as at the center of the first floor. Other areas have plate glass glazing in aluminum windows. The roof is covered with grey slates, and the building has a coped ashlar with a full complement of cans, decorative bargeboarding, and square section gutters.

Additionally, there is an outbuilding that was formerly a stable and gig house. This harled structure has a gambrel-jerkinhead roof and a decorative finialled, louvred air vent at the center of the ridge. The east elevation of the outbuilding includes two traditional boarded timber sliding garage doors on the right and a timber door with a two-leaf glazed fanlight on the outer left, along with two small rooflights. The south elevation has a window at ground level and a hayloft door above.

Finally, there is a semicircular coped rubble boundary wall surrounding the property.