Colinswell House, 139 Aberdour Road, Burntisland

Colinswell House is an earlier 19th-century, two-storey classical house with a basement, located at 139 Aberdour Road in Burntisland. The building features stugged ashlar stonework with long and short work quoins, a base course, a band course, a first-floor cill course, an eaves course, a cornice, and a parapet. The windows are architraved and corniced at the ground level, and there is decorative cast-iron brattishing.

On the north elevation, the main entrance is a panelled door located at the centre within a pilastered and corniced doorcase, topped with a 12-pane fanlight, accessed by a flagstone path leading over the basement. Flanking the entrance are windows, with regular fenestration on the first floor. The cornice and platform are adorned with decorative brattishing.

The south elevation is three-storey due to the sloping ground, featuring four bays. There is a bipartite timber door on the outer left at ground level, with three barred windows to the right. A set of cast-iron steps leads to a glazed door to the left of centre on the first floor, accompanied by two windows to the right and one to the left. The second floor has regular fenestration.

The east elevation has three bays, with a timber door to the right of centre and a smaller door at the outer right in the basement, displaying regular fenestration on the ground and first floors.

The west elevation has a centre window that has been converted into a door, obscured by a timber link to a modern timber building that was originally a dance hall. There is a blind window to the right and a window to the left. The first floor features a centre stair window with windows in the flanking bays.

The windows throughout the house have a 12-pane glazing pattern in the timber sash and case windows, while the stair window has a 15-pane glazing pattern. The roof is covered in grey slates with a piend and platform design, featuring coped ashlar and hipped wallhead stacks with cans. There are filigree cast-iron balustrades on the north and south sides, along with decorative cast-iron rainwater hoppers and downpipes.

Inside, the main rooms on the ground and first floors boast decorative cornicing and plaster ceiling designs. The dog-leg stair features decorative cast-iron railings and a wooden handrail.

The property is complemented by pyramid-coped ashlar gatepiers, extensive coped rubble and ashlar boundary walls, and decorative cast-iron railings and gates.