West Dean, 54 Bennochy Road, Kirkcaldy

James Bow Dunn, 1913-14, extended by James Gillespie & Scott, 1932. Manorial 2-storey and attic, 3-bay, piend-roofed, symmetrical villa. Pinkish snecked Hailes rubble with tile-hung dormer detail, and deep Caithness-slated bellcast roof swept over eaves. Low single storey and attic service wing to E, with low-swept bellcast roof, as main block. Stone mullions.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: centre bay with projecting parapetted ashlar entrance porch, steps lead to broad doorway with 2-leaf timber door and oval top-lights flanked by multi-paned windows set in swept, concave-curved flanks. Single window over centre bay at 1st floor close to wallhead, eaves carried across lintel. Each outer bay with 3 windows at ground and bipartite windows with tile-hung, swept dormerheads breaking eaves at 1st floor. Long horizontal box dormer (original) with full-height, paired centre and flanking single windows over centre bay.

E ELEVATION: small square single dormer window to centre in slope of roof with tall, flanking end stacks.

W ELEVATION: dormer window as E elevation but with massive flue stepped to tall single stack.

SINGLE STOREY WING TO E: asymmetrical wing with single off-centre piend-roofed dormer window facing S, and end stack to E.

12-pane glazing pattern in timber sash and case windows. Caithness slates. Coped and shouldered, squared rubble stacks with full complement of cans; cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers.

INTERIOR: not seen 1997 (see Notes).

GARDEN ENCLOSING WALLS, GATEPIERS AND GATES: coped, squared and snecked bull-faced rubble enclosing walls; quadrant entrance screen wall with carriage entrance flanked by pyramidal-coped gatepiers and pedestrian entrance to SE; studded and panelled timber gates.