Forrester Memorial Manse, 83 Milton Road, Kirkcaldy

Gillespie and Scott, 1894; alterations J D Swanston, 1928-9; altered 1964. 2-storey, 3-bay, rectangular-plan gabled manse. Stugged ashlar, squared sandstone rubble and polished quoins. Deep base course, part string and 1st floor cill courses, eaves cornice. Basket-, segmental- and round-arched openings, chamfered reveals, voussoirs, stone transoms and mullions.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: moulded, deep-set basket-arched doorway with broad part-glazed boarded timber door, adjacent small round-headed window with trefoil detail to right, whole below string course and 1st floor cill course (both enclosing downpipe) forming frame for carved floreate panel and inscription; bipartite window to left and tripartite window in recessed bay to right. 1st floor centre bay with bipartite window in round-arched surround, tympanum inscribed 'RAITH MANSE, ERECTED TO THE BELOVED MEMORY OF JOHN FORRESTER, 18...96', small gable above; bipartite window to left in small gable and further bipartite to right with windowhead breaking eaves into gablet.

W ELEVATION: window to centre and 2 windows to left at ground, further window to centre at 1st floor in stepped chimney gable.

N ELEVATION: asymmetrical fenestration with piended dormer window in lower bay to right.

E ELEVATION: chimney gable with window to centre at each floor.

Mainly 9-pane glazing pattern over plate glass in timber sash and case windows. Grey slates. Coped ashlar stacks with cans and ashlar-coped skews with flat skewputts; cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers.

INTERIOR: modernised 1964 but retaining staircase (balusters boarded) with fielded, ball-finialled timber newels and architraved vestibule door.

BOUNDARY WALLS: low saddleback-coped boundary walls to S, semi-circular -coped rubble boundary walls elsewhere.