50 Bennochy Road, Kirkcaldy

Circa 1890. 2-storey and attic, asymmetrical mock half-timbered gabled villa with Queen Anne details. Grey stugged and snecked sandstone with polished ashlar dressings and margins. Mullioned and transomed windows. Steeply-pitched roof .

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 2-bay, broad gabled projection to left, with 4-light mullioned and transomed window at ground floor, 7-light rectangular timber oriel canted out on paired timber brackets above at 1st floor, half-timbered gablehead further jettied out over timber brackets above, with canted oriel with arched centre light above, gable apex with diagonal half-timbering jettied out even further above; plain bargeboards. Single broad bay set-back to right, with canted and parapetted 4-light window at ground, 3-light mullioned and transomed window at 1st floor breaking eaves and continuing above with large dormer comprising tall 5-light multi-paned window with steep-pitched half-timbered gablehead over and timber balustraded balcony below.

E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: centre bay with projecting, rectangular-plan single storey porch with masonry base course, timbered and glazed above, and slated piend roof with overhanging eaves; 6-panelled door with broken Jacobethan-style pediment on return to left; single window over at 1st floor centre and paired bargeboarded and half-timbered gablets at ends of M-gableheaded roof above; broad stack to outer right with single storey wing beyond.

N ELEVATION: asymmetrical fenestration, including canted window adjoining single storey wing at ground and with large window above.

Plate glass and multi-paned casement glazing patterns in timber windows. Grey slates with red ridge tiles. Coped squared rubble stacks with cans; cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers.

INTERIOR: not seen 1997.

BOUNDARY WALLS: semicircular-coped squared rubble boundary walls.