23 Church Street, Kirkcaldy

17 Church Street in Kirkcaldy is a terrace of four crowstepped houses, built in 1890. The building features stugged, squared rubble with random rubble on the sides and rear, and polished and dressed margins. It is two stories high and has eight bays, situated on a slope that falls to the west. Architectural details include an eaves course, corbels, raised and tabbed margins, stop-chamfered arrises, and stone mullions.

The principal elevation is symmetrical, with numbers 17 and 19 positioned to the left of center. These houses have paired, deep-set panelled timber doors with plate glass fanlights above, located beneath a small bipartite window that breaks the eaves. This window leads to a dated dormer head featuring a fleur-de-lys finial. The flanking bays each have slightly advanced canted tripartite windows below a moulded panel, which is corbelled to a square at the first floor, with windows that break the eaves into ball-finialled crowstepped gablets. Numbers 21 and 23, though undated, mirror the design of the other houses in all details.

The east elevation has a gabled design with a crowstepped left pitch and a margined window at the center of the first floor. The west elevation mirrors the east elevation. The north elevation features symmetrical fenestration at the first floor, along with projecting, single-storey, pitch-roofed outbuildings at the ground level.

The ground floor of the south elevation has plate glass glazing in timber sash and case windows, except for number 21. Numbers 19 and 23 also have sash and case windows at the first floor and on the north elevation, while the remaining windows are top-opening timber. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are coped ashlar skews with moulded skewputts and ashlar-coped stacks that have a full complement of cans. Decorative cast-iron downpipes with rainwater hoppers and fixings are present, except for the southeast side of number 23.

The boundary walls consist of low ashlar-coped walls to the south and coped rubble walls elsewhere.