18 Beveridge Road, Kirkcaldy

18 Beveridge Road in Kirkcaldy is a pair of two-storey, four-bay houses designed by D Forbes Smith ARIBA in 1906. These houses are built in a U shape with piend roofs and feature bull-faced, squared, and snecked rubble with polished ashlar dressings. They have a base course, a dividing cornice for the canted bays, and an eaves cornice. The round-headed doors have keystones, chamfered arrises, and stone mullions.

The south elevation is symmetrical, with the outer bays featuring a step leading up to a deeply moulded, keystoned doorcase. This doorcase is flanked by corniced, channelled plinths that support small paired columns—round on the inside and square on the outside—beside narrow lights, all topped with corniced cushion capitals. The deep-set panelled timber door has a semicircular plate glass fanlight above it, and there is a window on the first floor. The full-height, canted inner bays have tripartite windows on each floor and a finialled polygonal roof that breaks the eaves.

The north elevation has a variety of openings, with the projecting outer bays, particularly the one for No 18, being extended. The east elevation is asymmetrical, featuring a large stair window in the center and additional windows to the right. The west elevation mirrors the east elevation.

The houses have 4-pane and plate glass glazing patterns in timber sash and case windows. The roofs are covered with grey slates, adorned with decorative terracotta ridge tiles and finials. They share a cavetto-coped ridge stack and have additional coped stacks, all fitted with cans. The cast-iron downpipes are complemented by decorative rainwater hoppers.

Inside No 18, there are some decorative cornices. The vestibule features an encaustic-tiled floor, Art Nouveau style glazed dado tiles, and coloured glass lights. A screen door leads into the hall, which has timber panelling and a timber-balonstered staircase with pendant finials. There is also a coloured glass, margined stair window. The interior of No 20 was not seen in 1996.

The boundary walls consist of saddleback-coped dressed ashlar walls to the south, with coped rubble walls elsewhere.