Bank House Hotel, 81 High Street, Burntisland

The Bank House Hotel, located at 81 High Street in Burntisland, is an early 19th-century, two-storey building with a basement and a rectangular plan, designed in a classical style. The exterior features severely stone-cleaned ashlar, painted below the ground floor, with coursed whinstone on the sides and rear. It has raised long and short work quoins, moulded window surrounds with architraves at the ground floor, a mutulated cornice, and a blocking course.

The south elevation facing High Street is symmetrical, with wide steps that have central and side railings leading to a deeply recessed doorpiece. This doorpiece is columned and corniced, featuring a panelled door with an ornate fanlight above it. There are windows in the flanking bays, and the first and second floors have regular fenestration, including 19th-century rooflights.

The east and west elevations each have one small window centrally located on the first floor. The windows are made of plate glass and are set in timber sash and case frames. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are ashlar coped skews, gablehead stacks, and rainwater hoppers.

Inside, the hotel features a hallway with a winding central stair that has bannisters and a handrail, along with egg and dart plaster moulding beneath the stair turn. A room on the west front showcases an elaborate cornice and ceiling decoration with a bellflower swag.

The boundary walls consist of a low saddle-back coped cement-rendered wall with modern railings along the south boundary, coped ashlar walls abutting the south front of the house to the east and west with an opening on the east side, and an ashlar coped whinstone rubble boundary wall to the west.