Museum, Queen Street, Inverkeithing

This museum occupies a mid-14th century friary hospitium, which was remodelled as a tenement in the 17th century and later converted into a museum between 1934 and 1937. The building has a roughly L-shaped design, comprising a main 6-bay block and a 2-bay double-pitched south wing, which represents the western range of the former Franciscan conventual buildings. The exterior is largely random rubble, with some squared coursed rubble and ashlar to the west; dressed stone margins are also present. A coped rubble forestair leads to the west front.

The west elevation, facing the street, has four bays for the main block and two bays for the south wing. An ashlar-coped rubble forestair gives access through a pointed arched doorway with a timber boarded door. An arrow slit window is located to the left of the stair, with a small window above and another set below the eaves on the far left. Two windows are blocked-out above the stair. A pointed arched doorway is at the foot of the stair to the right, above which is a transomed and mullioned lancet window. Two arrow slit windows are on the ground floor of the two right-hand bays (south wing), with two timber sash and case windows centred above.

The south elevation is double-pitched with irregular window placement. A central window is positioned at the upper floor level, with an arrow slit at ground floor to the right, alongside a 1st floor window and a shouldered and chamfered blocked opening directly above. A string course runs along the right-hand gablehead.

The east (garden) elevation also has irregular fenestration, with the main block to the right and the south wing projecting to the left. A central pointed arched doorway is present, alongside a lean-to roofed newel-stair positioned off-centre to the left. A transomed and mullioned lancet window is situated to the right of the newel-stair at the upper level. A variety of openings of differing sizes, including lancet and square windows, are interspersed with square leaded windows.

The north elevation displays a plain gable, with evidence of previous buildings that were once attached, including a former window opening and a steeply pitched profile.

Predominantly leaded windows are found on the main block to the north. Fifteen-pane timber sash and case windows characterize the south wing. Pitched roofs cover the structure, with pantiles on the main block and grey slates on the south wing. Straight stone skews are visible at the southeast gable, alongside beaked skewputts. Gablehead stacks are situated to the north and southwest, with a wallhead stack to the southeast; circular clay cans are present on the south stacks.

Inside, the ground floor is barrel-vaulted, and a large hall occupies the 1st floor. Turnpike stone stairs are located to the southeast, while pointed ashlar archways create passages and define internal spaces.

To the east, a square-plan rubble-built well is present. Three barrel-vaulted chambers form a ruined rubble-built undercroft, sunk into the ground to the northeast; these chambers are connected by an arched doorway on the eastmost side.