Beveridge Buildings, 6 Oswald's Wynd, Kirkcaldy

Beveridge Buildings comprise a pair of early to earlier 19th-century tenements located on Kirkcaldy’s High Street. The buildings are arranged with shops at ground floor level and extend to 4 storeys on the west block, and 3 storeys with an attic on the east block.

The west block is 5 bays wide and is built of painted ashlar with raised long and short quoins on the south side, while the west and north elevations are harled with painted margins. A ground floor cornice and fascia acts as the cill course for the first floor. The south elevation, facing High Street, has a traditional shop front with a recessed shop door at the centre, flanked by bipartite display windows with moulded colonnettes at the angles. A pend entrance is located to the outer right, and a polished granite pier to the outer left. There are five windows on each floor above. The west elevation has 7 bays above ground level, with a shop front featuring 12 windows divided by colonnettes and a deep, moulded fascia. A double gable with a wallhead link connects the elevation to a central bay. The north elevation has a lean-to extension obscuring the ground floor on the right side; a round stair tower with two tall windows is positioned to the left of centre. Basement doors and further windows are present in the outer left bay and extending up to the third and fourth floors in the bay to the right. The windows are predominantly small-pane, with some plate glass lower sashes. They are set within timber sash and case frames. The roof is covered with grey slates, and the chimney stacks are of coped ashlar and harl construction, with cans and ashlar-coped skews.

The slightly recessed east block is 5 bays wide above ground level and is built of painted ashlar with raised long and short quoins. The ground floor has a cornice and fascia, and the eaves feature a modillioned cornice. The south elevation has a pend entrance with a panelled timber door at the center, flanked by modern shops. Moulded cornices with small centre block pediments and pendant finials are located to the outer right and left. There are five windows on each floor above, and piended, slate-hung dormer windows are positioned over the outer bays. The north elevation incorporates a variety of window openings and low decorative cast-iron railings at the eaves. The windows have a 4-pane glazing pattern, with a 12-pane glazing pattern to the dormers, all within timber sash and case frames. The roof is covered with grey slates with coped ashlar and brick stacks, featuring cans and ashlar-coped skews.