295A-297 High Street, Kirkcaldy

A MacMaster, refurbishment 1902, incorporating late 18th century fabric; dwellings modernised 1980: 18th century outbuilding. 4-storey, 3-bay Queen Anne style tenement with public house at ground. Polished red granite at ground with painted ashlar above impost level, ashlar with outer channelled pilaster strips above; brick stair tower and single storey wing to rear. Mutuled cornice over ground floor and as 3rd floor cill band. Segmental- and round-headed openings; raised, tabbed margins to 1st and 2nd floors; keystones, hoodmoulds, rounded stop-chamfered arrises to ground, and stone transoms and mullions.

S (HIGH STREET) ELEVATION: symmetrical above ground. Broad segmental-headed, decorative astragalled tripartite window with columnar mullions, panelled aprons and coloured, leaded glass panel below decorative keystone off-centre right; flanking round-headed doorways with similar keystones and deep-set 2-leaf timber doors below timber-blocked fanlights (each with extractor fan); pend entrance to outer left pilastered with decorative moulded pediment below elliptical keystoned oculus with painted small-pane glazing and deep-set panelled timber door. 1st and 2nd floors with small bipartite window to centre bay and flanking larger bipartites; outer pilaster strips with cartouche surmounted by putto mask and cornice. 3rd floor with small bipartite window at centre below decorative windowhead inscribed 'Victoria House established 1780, Refurbished 1902 by A MacMaster', and flanking hoodmoulded segmental-headed keystoned windows in gabled bays, outer pilaster strips with cavetto coping below scroll-moulded gable end.

8-pane glazing pattern in timber sash and case windows; small-pane glazing in fixed window at ground. Grey slates. Coped ashlar stacks with some cans and ashlar coped skews. Cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers.

INTERIOR: No 295A: public bar with original dado height ceramic tiles (tiles above installed 1990's), decorative cornice and ceiling; coloured glass with ship in roundel, Art Nouveau border and narrow coloured margin. Room to rear with open timber roof, boarded dado and mutuled timber fireplace.

POTTIE'S CLOSE OUTBUILDING: rubble outbuilding, former bothy/byre? (see Notes) with droved quoins; pantiles to W (asbestos to E) and ashlar coped skews. W elevation with broad doorway to right and blocked window to left.

BOUNDARY WALL: coped rubble boundary walls including lintel to rear probably dated 1786 with indecipherable initials to left.