Nairn's Linoleum Works, Den Road, Kirkcaldy

The Nairn's Linoleum Works, located on Den Road in Kirkcaldy, is a late 19th century and later factory complex, with a 1928 tower. The layout roughly forms an ‘L’ shape, demonstrating the evolution of the factory through its construction.

The west block comprises a 17-bay, five-storey range; a taller, seven-bay flat-roofed range to its right; and a taller, flat-roofed single-bay tower to the left. The entire block is built of red brick. The ground floor has an arcade, and the floors above feature segmental-headed windows, except for the nine leftmost bays of the fourth floor, which have round-headed windows. The west elevation’s central range features regular window placement, with a doorway in bay 6 at ground level and a blocked opening in bay 3. Bay 1 has a ground-floor doorway and all windows are blocked above. The range to the outer right has vertical and some horizontal bands, with small windows retained at the first and second floors. All windows are blocked in the tower at the outer left.

The northeast block is a piend-roofed, red brick structure with a corbelled frieze and cornice. It has segmental-headed openings on the ground and second floors, and round-headed openings on the first floor, with a continuous hoodmould to the east and recessed architraves to the north.

The east (entrance) elevation has three bays. A broad entrance is centrally located at ground level, with a tall, blinded window above it, flanked by smaller windows.

The north elevation features a fire escape running from the ground floor on the left side to the centre at the second floor. The ground floor has a blocked opening to the left of centre and a modern lean-to extension projecting to the right. The first floor has a tall window in the centre bay, a similar window to the right with an aluminium air vent at the head, and another window beyond, alongside an altered window to the outer right. The bay to the left of centre is altered, seemingly containing a blocked window, with two further windows beyond. The second floor mirrors the first with a door centrally located, a small window to the left, a window to the right with an aluminium air vent, an additional window in the penultimate bay to the right, and an altered window similar to the first floor on the outer right. The west elevation is blank brick to the left, with the tower adjacent at centre and right.

Small-pane glazing patterns are present throughout the building. Round-headed windows use lying-panes in casement and hopper frames, with radial-astragalled heads. The roof is covered in grey slate.

The 1928 tower is an eleven-storey, flat-roofed structure built of pre-formed concrete. It rises above the main block at the northwest corner, containing a stairwell. It has wide, irregular band courses. The tower has bipartite windows with small-pane glazing, some with top-hopper openings, with some windows blinded. Port-hole openings are present on all elevations of the stairwell above the roofline.

Due to insufficient building strength, linoleum drying banks were stacked atop each other, rendering the top floor unusable.