Queens Hotel, 8, 10, 12 Church Street, Inverkeithing

The Queens Hotel, located at 8, 10, and 12 Church Street, Inverkeithing, dates to the later 19th century, with subsequent additions in the early and later 20th century, and further extensions in the later 20th century. It is a 2-storey and attic building, originally designed as a rectangular, 3-bay public house and hotel. A 2-storey, 2-bay extension forms a pend to the north, and extensive later 20th-century additions are found to the rear.

The building is rendered white with black painted dressings and margins, stone cills, and a base course. The principal, east-facing elevation is symmetrical. A rusticated pilastered doorway is topped with a shaped pediment, a ball finial keystone, a plain round-arched fanlight, and 2-leaf timber panel doors. Flanking the doorway are wide, elliptical-arched pub windows; the window to the right has tripartite openings, and the one to the left has a door and a bipartite window. The first floor features a central bipartite window with an entablature, with the lettering "QUEENS" above and "HOTEL" below. Flanking this are prominent oriel windows with crenellated parapets. A central breaking-eaves dormer window has a round-arched pediment, and flanking gabled dormers have bargeboarding and wrought-iron finials. A 2-story early 20th-century addition to the right incorporates a pend, a door with a 4-pane fanlight, and bipartite and single windows above.

The north elevation has an advanced 2-story extension to the left. A central door is accessed by a modern metal forestair on the first floor, with a window to the right. A central window sits between the first and attic floors. A flat-roofed extension recedes to the rear, alongside a 2-story later 20th-century accommodation wing extending to the far right.

The west, or rear, elevation displays a complex arrangement of later additions linked by a single-story extension, with three piended breaking-eaves dormers featuring truncated chimneystacks. The south elevation adjoins 2, 4, and 6 Church Street.

The windows are predominantly 6-pane over plate glass timber sash and case, with horns; some later 20th-century windows are found in the rear extension. The roof is Mansard-shaped, covered with graded grey slates, with stone skews, beaked skewputts, and truncated ashlar gable head stacks.

The pub's interior has largely lost its original fabric. A central timber staircase remains, exhibiting turned balusters, carved newel posts, and dentilled cornicing. There is decorative cornicing in the first-floor dining room, which is at the front of the plan, and a glazed pyramidal rooflight. The original layout of the upper floors is largely intact; all fireplaces have been removed.