71 Balwearie Road, Kirkcaldy

This is a pair of semi-detached villas, numbers 71 and 79 Balwearie Road, Kirkcaldy, built in the early 20th century by Swanston & Syme. They occupy a corner site and are characterised by their large size, two storeys, and six bays each. The buildings are asymmetrical, with piend-roofed designs. They are constructed from bull-faced, squared and snecked rubble stone, with roughly coursed rubble and contrasting red sandstone ashlar dressings and quoins. Deeply overhanging eaves give the buildings a distinctive profile. Stone mullions are incorporated into the window design.

Number 79 has an advanced full-height canted window rising to a finialled turret roof in the bay to the left; this is accompanied by a small Art Nouveau-style coloured glass window at ground level. To the right is a bipartite window on each floor. A lower, piended, open porch with fluted square-plan timber columns and a balustrade is positioned to the left, leading to a moulded doorway with a boarded timber door and a small-pane horizontal top light. The north-east elevation displays asymmetrical fenestration including a bipartite window at first floor level and a wallhead stack to the right. The south-east (rear) elevation has a lower, advanced, piended bay with a wallhead stack and an angle window and a bipartite window on the left bay.

Number 71 features a turret-roofed, canted entrance tower in a re-entrant angle, with steps leading to a corniced, moulded doorcase and a two-light, part-glazed boarded timber door with a multi-pane fanlight. Above the door is a blind panel flanked by scrolls, with a window at first floor. A canted tripartite window is present in the bay to the left, and a small window directly to its right. The south-west elevation has an advanced bay to the left with a full-height canted tripartite window rising to a turret roof; a window is positioned to the right at ground level, with a wallhead stack above. A lower, slightly recessed bay to the right features a bipartite window at ground level, above which is a Diocletian window. The rear (south-east) elevation has a low, blind, advanced, piended bay with a wallhead stack, a large Art Nouveau-style coloured glass stair window, and a further wallhead stack.

The windows are timber sash and case, with multi-pane upper sashes over two-pane lower sashes. The roofs are covered in grey slates. The tall stacks are constructed from rubble with sandstone quoins and are topped with red clay cans. Cast-iron downpipes feature decorative rainwater hoppers and fixings. The interiors have not been inspected. Low ashlar-coped rubble and harled boundary walls define the site.