Royal Hotel, Seaforth Place, Burntisland

The Royal Hotel, located on Seaforth Place in Burntisland, is an early 19th-century, two-storey building with a basement and attic. This rectangular-plan classical hotel has been converted into flats. It features ashlar stonework with raised quoins, band courses, a ground floor cill course, an eaves cornice, and a blocking course, along with architraved surrounds.

The south elevation, which serves as the entrance, is symmetrical and includes a flight of 11 steps leading to an advanced central bay. This bay has a wide doorcase supported by Doric columns, a frieze, and a cornice, topped with a semi-circular fanlight. The entrance is a 9-panelled door with a radial-astragalled fanlight, flanked by windows in the adjacent bays. The basement and first floor have regular windows, and above, there are three slate-hung piended canted dormer windows.

The north elevation is also symmetrical, featuring three windows on the ground and first floors, with an obscured basement below. Piended canted dormer windows are located on both the outer right and left sides.

On the east and west elevations, there is a small window towards the rear at the first floor and two small windows toward the center in the attic. The building has a 12-pane glazing pattern in its timber sash and case windows, and it is roofed with graded grey slates. The gablehead stacks and skews are ashlar coped, and there are cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers.

The entrance is accentuated by a flight of 11 steps that extend over the basement, featuring decorative cast-iron railings at the center and plain cast-iron railings on the outer edges.