Albany House, 80 Rose Street, Dunfermline

Albany House is a substantially rebuilt late 19th-century villa, incorporating elements of an earlier early 19th-century structure. It is situated in Dunfermline and comprises two main stories over a basement, with flanking single-story pavilions featuring single-pitched roofs. The design takes the form of a detached villa with a prominent Doric entrance porch and flanking canted bays on the south elevation. The pavilions are characterised by Palladian windows and crenellations.

The building is constructed of coursed, droved sandstone with polished ashlar dressings on the principal north and south elevations, and coursed rubble elsewhere. A base course runs along the ground floor of the north and south elevations of the main block, and an eaves course is also present. Quoins are visible on the main block and pavilions on the south elevation, while ashlar margins define the north side of the pavilions. Coped gables and moulded skewputts are found throughout.

The south elevation presents a symmetrical arrangement. Steps lead to a central entrance with an open porch supported by a pair of Doric columns and flanked by pilasters. A four-panel timber door is positioned within the porch, with a window above. Flanking canted bays feature a window to the central face of the basement, with a curved cill extending to either side. The upper floors have mullioned tripartite windows with curved and panelled cills. The flanking pavilions are set back slightly and are crenellated at their apex, each with a single Palladian window in the centre, with the side lights blocked.

The north elevation is a four-bay arrangement, dominated by a tall, hoodmoulded round-arched stair window with coloured border-glazing. An entrance, featuring a consoled cornice, is to the right of the stair window, with a four-panel timber door and rectangular fanlight. Regular fenestration with windows on each floor to each bay is found elsewhere, with upper windows being larger. A rendered outhouse range extends along the ground floor to the right.

The east elevation shows a pavilion, harled on this side, occupying the left side of the basement, with an architraved entrance to the return. A window is set back on the right of the main block, with a small, narrow light above it.

The west elevation displays a pavilion, with a harled extension, occupying the right side of the basement. A rubble gable end of the outhouse range projects forward to the left. An arrowslit opening is set back to the gable of the main block.

The windows are predominantly 2, 4, and 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roofs cover the main block and outhouse range, while the pavilions are topped with corrugated iron. Wide, corniced, gablehead stacks with band courses are positioned to either side of the main block, with a gablehead stack also present on the outhouse range; most cans are missing.

The interior was not inspected in 1999.

A low, harled crenellated garden wall is situated immediately to the south. A rubble wall with ashlar slab coping adjoins the house along Rose Street to the east, incorporating a square-plan, corniced gatepier (the eastern gatepier is now part of a garage).