West Dean, 54 Bennochy Road, Kirkcaldy

West Dean is a villa located at 54 Bennochy Road in Kirkcaldy, built between 1913 and 1914 by James Bow Dunn and later extended by James Gillespie & Scott in 1932. This manorial-style building features two stories and an attic, with a symmetrical design and a piend roof. The exterior is made of pinkish snecked Hailes rubble, with tile-hung dormer details and a deep bellcast roof covered in Caithness slate.

The south elevation, which is the principal front, has a central bay that includes a projecting ashlar entrance porch with a parapet. Steps lead up to a broad doorway featuring a two-leaf timber door and oval top-lights, flanked by multi-paned windows set in concave-curved sides. Above the entrance, there is a single window at the first floor, close to the wallhead, with the eaves extending across the lintel. Each outer bay contains three windows at the ground level and bipartite windows with tile-hung, swept dormerheads that break the eaves at the first floor. There is also a long horizontal box dormer, which is original, featuring full-height paired windows in the center and single windows on either side.

The east elevation has a small square single dormer window in the roof slope, accompanied by tall flanking end stacks. The west elevation mirrors the east but features a larger dormer window with a massive flue leading to a tall single stack.

To the east, there is a single-storey asymmetrical service wing with a piend-roofed dormer window facing south and an end stack to the east. The windows throughout the building are timber sash and case with a 12-pane glazing pattern, and the roof is covered in Caithness slates. The building has coped and shouldered, squared rubble stacks with a full complement of cans, and decorative cast-iron downpipes with rainwater hoppers.

The interior was not seen in 1997. Surrounding the property are garden walls made of coped, squared, and snecked bull-faced rubble, featuring a quadrant entrance screen wall with a carriage entrance flanked by pyramidal-coped gatepiers, as well as a pedestrian entrance to the southeast with studded and panelled timber gates.