Moffat Cottage, 13-17 Heriot Street, Inverkeithing

Moffat Cottage, located at 13-17 Heriot Street in Inverkeithing, is an earlier 19th-century single-storey and garret cottage built on a basement. It has a rectangular plan and features stugged ashlar on the principal elevation, with random rubble on the north, east, and south sides. The cottage has stone cills, stop-chamfered openings, and banded margins on the south and east elevations, along with an eaves course. The entrance includes a pilastered doorway, and there are piended dormers on the roof. A rustic summer house made of random stone is situated to the northeast.

On the west (principal) elevation, the cottage has a central pilastered doorway with a corniced lintel, a timber panelled door, and a plain fanlight, flanked by windows. The garret features two polygonal piended dormers and a central cast-iron rooflight.

The south elevation includes a basement window positioned off-centre to the right and a small garret window to the left. The east (rear) elevation is two-storey with a garret and has a timber panelled door off-centre to the right, flanked by basement windows in the outer bays. There are two small circular and square stair windows, added in the 20th century, at the inter-floor level, along with two upper floor windows in the outer bays and a small square stair window. A cast-iron rooflight is located off-centre to the right, and there is a box dormer at the far right.

The north elevation is a plain gable. The windows are predominantly plate glass in timber sash and case style. The pitched roof is covered with grey slates, featuring straight stone skews, coped cement-rendered stacks, and circular clay cans.

Inside, there is a spiral stone stair leading to the rear, with a mahogany handrail and decorative cast-iron railings featuring reed, acanthus, and anthemion designs. The vestibule door is glazed and timber panelled, with plain sidelights framed by timber columnettes and a plain segmental fanlight above. All fireplaces in the cottage have been blocked.

The summer house is a single-storey, rectangular-plan structure made of random rubble, with a pitched roof covered in graded grey slates and overhanging eaves at the wallheads. It has a semi-circular arched timber boarded door on the west side with a timber architrave, and a semi-circular arched window on the east side with a 20-pane cast-iron frame, although the glass is missing. The interior features limewash rubble and a cobbled floor.