Beach House, Lochies Road, Burntisland

Beach House is a later 19th-century former municipal Beach Tearoom situated on Lochies Road, Burntisland. The building is a T-plan design with a platform roof, comprising a single storey and attic, and includes a single-storey wing. A prominent decorative cast-iron verandah is a key feature.

The building is constructed of polychromatic brick with brick dressings, dressed ashlar, moulded cills, stone mullions, and stop-chamfered arrises. The south elevation has a piend-roofed four-bay canopy, featuring a spiral motif balustrade on a low base, and narrow circular columns with foliate capitals. These support a timbered canopy with moulded brackets and eaves cornice, extending two bays to the east and west. The canopy embraces a single-storey T-projection, with a central bipartite window flanked by adjacent windows. A window and part-glazed door with a six-pane fanlight are set within recesses on returns to the right and left. To the right and left are recessed windows. An outer left wing has a boarded door with a letterbox fanlight to the outer right, two windows to the left, a further boarded door with a letterbox fanlight in the penultimate bay to the left, and a window to the outer left. Three modern rooflights are positioned above.

The east elevation features the aforementioned verandah and an advanced section to the right with a window to its right and a canted window with a cornice to its left, with a bipartite window in the central gable above. The west elevation similarly features the verandah and a pitch-roofed wing at ground level. A bipartite window is positioned slightly to the right of centre in the gable, above which the gable apex has been altered to a flat roof at the left.

The glazing pattern consists of four- and six-pane upper sashes with plate glass lower sashes to the main building, and plate glass glazing in sash and case windows to the wing. Grey slates remain on the roof, with traces of lettering visible on the west side. Cavetto coped brick stacks with cans are present, alongside plain bargeboarding with moulded, exposed eaves and cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers.

An outbuilding abuts the east boundary wall. This flat-roofed, single-storey building, formerly public toilets, is constructed of painted brick with red brick dressings on the south and west sides, and of rubble with damaged harl to the east, adjoining the boundary wall. A door with a cast-iron gate leads to the interior, which has glazed tiles. Two brick-vented openings are on the west side, and two timber-louvred openings are on the east side.

Ashlar gatepiers with chamfered plinths and pyramidal caps with ball finials are situated on the east and west boundaries. The gatepiers on the west side are missing their finials. Low, crenellated, rendered boundary walls extend to the south, incorporating a square coping pier and a moulded corner section to the southeast. A low, crenellated, painted and rendered wall with cast-iron railings and gates adjoins the building on the southeast. Rubble boundary walls with coped tops are located to the east and west, whilst a brick wall defines the northern boundary.