Including Garage, Southwood, Woodmill Road, Dunfermline

Southwood is a detached house built in 1902 by Andrew Muirhead, with a garage added in 1911 by Alex Waddell. The building is set over two storeys and basement, with a single-storey wing with attic to the east. It adopts an asymmetrical, L-shaped plan and displays Free Art Nouveau design principles, notably through its deep swept overhanging eaves and asymmetrically disposed windows.

The main materials are harled brick with painted ashlar dressings. Ground and first floor cill courses run along the principal (west) elevation and part of the north elevation, with deep projecting bases below the ground floor cills. The first floor windows feature moulded cills along the principal elevation and most of those to the north elevation.

The principal (west) elevation is three bays wide. The entrance features a glazed porch of rectangular plan with a harled brick base, positioned left of centre. The porch has a leaded barrel roof fronted by a broken-base segmental pediment supported on timber columns and topped with a dentilled entablature. Above the entrance sits a Palladian window arrangement with multipane glazing; a mullioned bipartite arrangement occupies the right return. Steps with a curved parapet lead up to the left return. The entrance door is panelled timber with a glazed upper panel, set back behind a moulded ashlar round-arched opening with chamfered jambs and a coved lintel. A narrow glazed section sits to the left with a rectangular fanlight above. The remaining windows on this elevation are arranged as tripartites with timber mullions. Those to the outer right are set into a rectangular-plan projecting bay with a band course above the ground floor; the outer left window to the first floor is a rectangular-plan cantilevered oriel.

The north elevation's main block lies to the right. A basement entrance with a boarded timber door sits right of centre. A rectangular-plan projecting bay occupies the right, containing windows to each floor (the basement window is shorter than the others), with a band course above the ground floor. Irregular fenestration to the left of the entrance includes two windows to ground and first floors; the window to the right of the ground floor is circular. To the left sits a single-storey and attic wing with three irregularly placed windows of differing dimensions to the ground floor.

The south elevation shows a canted bay to the left of the main block, with narrow windows to its left side at ground and first floor levels. A window set back to the outer right occupies ground and first floors. A mullioned tripartite stair window with timber mullions appears to the right return of the main block, below which sits a small window. The single-storey and attic wing is set back to the right, with a window to ground floor and attic (the attic window being architraved tripartite) to the left, a narrow attic window to the right, and a projecting bay with catslide roof to the outer right. A single small ground floor window sits to the left.

The east elevation displays the bargeboarded gable end of the single-storey and attic wing. An entrance with a timber door and triple pane rectangular fanlight sits to the outer right, with a window to the left. A pair of attic windows flank a projecting gablehead stack, and half-timbered detailing decorates the gable.

The windows throughout are predominantly multi-pane timber casements, with some featuring larger lower panes below curved astragals. The roof is red tiled and hipped to the main block. Stack details include a coped shouldered wallhead stack to the canted bay south of the main block, two coped wallhead stacks to the east (one projecting externally), a slightly projecting coped gablehead stack to the east wing, and round cans where in existence.

The interior retains its plan and majority of original fixtures and fittings. An open-well staircase with timber balustrade and curved handrail is present (the former flat heads to the main posts have been removed). Panelled timber doors occur throughout. The inner vestibule to the main entrance contains a panelled timber door with glazed upper panels set within a glazed timber screen. A buffet recess with timber surround and flanking doors opens to the dining room. The drawing room contains a segmental-headed recess with a fireplace flanked by columns and angled windows to either side.

The coach house is a single-storey rectangular-plan building featuring deep overhanging eaves. Lunette windows appear throughout: one to either side of a circular window to the east elevation, and one to the south. The entrance on the north side has a replacement sliding timber door. The roof is red tiled and piended, topped with a moulded terracotta finial to either side of the ridge. A harled corniced wallhead stack sits at the southeast corner.