Trustee Savings Bank, 40 High Street, Leven

This is a three-storey Baronial bank building dating from 1869, designed by Peddie and Kinnear, with a mid-20th century extension to the rear. The exterior is dry-dash rendering with polished ashlar dressings, featuring a corner entrance tower and crowstepped gables. The building includes a base course and stepped string courses. Architectural details comprise roll-moulded doorpieces, corbels, stone mullions, and stop-chamfered arrises.

The south (entrance) elevation features a rounded entrance tower with steps and flanking low quadrant walls leading to a doorpiece. The doorpiece incorporates a blind moulded tablet within the string course, acting as a hoodmould, and contains a deep-set panelled timber door with a glazed fanlight. There is a four-light window to the first floor, and three windows to the second floor, culminating in a conical roof with a decorative cast-iron finial.

The southeast (High Street) elevation is three bays wide, with a doorway mirroring the design on the south elevation, positioned on the right-hand side at ground level. A bipartite window is centrally located, and an altered window incorporating a cash-dispensing machine replaces an original window on the left. The first floor has three windows, with a stack corbelled out over the central bay. The second floor features an M-gable with a ball finial, and bipartite windows framing a slightly projecting stack bearing a moulded panel marked ‘1869’ with entwined initials ‘PK’.

The southwest (Bank Street) elevation has two bays, with a tripartite window to the left at ground level and a single window to the right. The first floor features a bipartite window to the left with a blind panel to the right. A smaller bipartite window to the left on the second floor breaks the eaves into a ball-finialled gablehead, while a corbelled stack to the right abuts the entrance tower. A lower extension is located to the outer left.

The northeast elevation has two windows to the left at ground level, with additional windows on each floor above to the right, the second floor window breaking the eaves into a gablehead.

The northwest (North Street) elevation has a modern extension at ground level. The first floor has a crowstepped gable to the right and a window to the left, with two additional second floor windows centrally placed, breaking the eaves into crowstepped dormerheads.

The windows are timber sash and case with plate glass glazing, although the first and second floors have uPVC glazing. The roof is covered in grey slates. Stacks are coped, dry-dash and ashlar, featuring ashlar-coped skewes with moulded skewputts and cast-iron downpipes with dated rainwater hoppers.

The interior contains a modern banking hall with decorative plasterwork cornices, panelled timber shutters, and a cantilevered dog-leg stair featuring decorative cast-iron balusters and a timber handrail.

The original gatepiers are flat-coped and square-section ashlar with chamfered angles. They support low, stugged ashlar saddleback-coped boundary walls with inset railings.