Manse, 21 Pratt Street, Kirkcaldy

The building at 21 Pratt Street in Kirkcaldy is a former manse designed by John Murray in 1885. It is a two-storey, three-bay structure with a rectangular plan and features both a piend and a platform roof. The exterior is finished in stone-cleaned bull-faced squared and random rubble, accented with ashlar long and short quoins. The ground floor windows have blocking courses, and there is an eaves cornice. Notable architectural details include stone mullions and stop-chamfered arrises.

On the west elevation, the central bay features a channelled, pilastered doorpiece with foliate capitals and extended abaci, leading to a segmental-headed Ruskinian doorway with a pointed arch gothic surround and a hoodmould with floral detail. The entrance is complemented by a deep-set panelled timber door with a plate glass fanlight. To the left, there is a canted tripartite window, while a slightly advanced tripartite window is to the right. The first floor has a central window with bipartite windows in the flanking bays.

The west elevation includes a small piend-roofed extension at ground level with two windows to the right and another window to the left. There is also a bipartite stair window off-centre right at the first floor, with a shouldered wallhead stack breaking the eaves to the right and a window in the left bay.

The south elevation has a ground floor window off-centre left and another window above it, situated below a broad shouldered wallhead stack that breaks the eaves.

The north elevation is mostly blank, featuring a window in the centre at the first floor and a wallhead stack above.

The windows are timber sash and case with plate glass glazing, while the stair window has a six-pane glazing pattern with coloured margins. The roof is covered with graded grey slates, and the building has coped rubble stacks with cans.

Inside, the manse boasts decorative plasterwork cornices, ceiling roses, and consoled arches (both segmental and pointed), along with marble fireplaces. The dog-leg stair features timber balusters, a handrail, ball-finialled carved newel posts, and pendant finials.

Surrounding the property are boundary walls made of ashlar-coped rubble, which include weepholes or putlogs to the southwest. The entrance features mitre-coped gatepiers and decorative cast-iron gates.