Kinghorn Library And Community Centre, Rossland Place, Kinghorn

Kinghorn Library and Community Centre, located on Rossland Place in Kinghorn, was designed by Thomas Hamilton in 1829 and has been extended at the rear in 1874 and 1986. This single-storey building features five bays and includes an engaged octagonal entrance bay along with a Baroque clock tower. The structure is primarily built of dark whinstone rubble, accented with contrasting ashlar quoins, while the 1874 extension is made of sandstone rubble, also with ashlar quoins. An eaves course runs along the top.

The principal elevation is symmetrical, showcasing a tall, semi-octagonal bay that projects from the center. This bay has steps leading up to a canopied doorway, which features a two-leaf panelled timber door, a small lantern at the apex, and two windows on each side.

The clock tower, which rises behind the center bay, has two stages. Each face of the open belfry has a round-headed voussoired opening with a bell inside. The tower has pilastered angles, a moulded cornice, and a reduced second stage with heavily scrolled angles topped by a clock face on each elevation. It is finished with a moulded attenuated ball finial and a cast-iron weathervane.

On the northeast elevation, there are two closely aligned windows in an advanced bay to the right of the center, with a modern porch in the re-entrant angle to the left and another window in the lower original bay on the outer left.

The southeast elevation mirrors the northeast but does not have a porch. The northwest elevation features a late 20th-century extension to the right of the center, with a flat-roofed porch projecting from the center and two pairs of closely aligned windows to the left.

The windows are timber sash and case with an 8-pane glazing pattern. The roofs are slated and piended, with coped ashlar stacks that have cans.

Inside, the building has been modernized, except for the engaged octagonal entrance bay, which retains stucco casts of Elgin marbles.