Greig Institute, Forth Street, Leven

Andrew Heiton (Perth), 1872-4. 2-storey, 3-bay Domestic Gothic detailed Institute with later single storey, cottage-style extension. Harled with contrasting stugged ashlar dressings. Raked raised base/ground floor cill course, band and eaves courses. Pointed-arch, tri-cusped or shouldered openings; roll-moulded doorway; buttress-detailed porch and gables; voussoirs and stone mullions.

SE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical. Centre bay with gabled porch, buttressed outer angles and pointed-arch doorway below carved band worded 'THE GREIG INSTITUTE' and shield dated '1872' in gablehead; 2-leaf panelled timber door and decoratively-astragalled fanlight: small shouldered bipartite window to set-back 1st floor. Flanking bays each with slightly advanced full-height buttress-effect gables; tripartite window to ground floor with individual tri-lobed heads and moulded stop-chamfering, and further tripartite windows above with colonnette mullions, pointed-arch outer framing and carved shield detail to typanum. Single storey extension to outer left.

NE (FORTH STREET) ELEVATION: 4 tri-cusped windows in pointed arch surrounds to ground floor, and further tri-cusped window in gablehead to left (all part blocked).

NW ELEVATION: slightly advanced rounded bay to centre with window to ground and tall tripartite window above; piend-roofed outer bays, that to left with door to right and 2 narrow windows to left at ground, and pointed-arch tripartite window breaking eaves above; bay to right of centre with door to left and 2 vertically-aligned windows to right, tripartite window to 1st floor as above. Single storey extension to outer right.

SW ELEVATION: single storey extension projecting at ground, gabled bay to right with part-blocked bipartite window in gablehead.

Plate glass glazing in timber sash and case windows; windows to centre bay at rear altered. Grey slates. Coped, shouldered and harled gablehead stacks; ashlar-coped skews and roll-moulded skewputts. Cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers, and decorative cast-iron finials.

INTERIOR: plain cornicing; timber-balustered dog-leg staircase; boarded timber dadoes. Pointed-arch commemorative panel (see Notes) to ground floor.

BOUNDARY WALLS: low ashlar-coped, rock-faced boundary walls.