Abbotsford, 72 Milton Road, Kirkcaldy

Abbotsford, located at 72 Milton Road in Kirkcaldy, is a classical house built in 1877, with alterations made in 1895 and the late 20th century. This two-storey, three-bay building features a piend and platform roof and has been converted into a nursing home. The exterior is constructed from dressed and squared rubble, accented with raised long and short quoins and ashlar dressings. It includes a base course, eaves cornice, and blocking course. Notable architectural details include a round-headed stair window with voussoirs, raised margins, stop-chamfered arrises, and stone mullions.

On the principal elevation (north), the central bay at ground level has steps leading up to a pilastered doorcase, which features a monogrammed block pediment, a deep-set panelled timber door, and a plate glass fanlight. Flanking this are canted tripartite windows, with a bipartite window in the centre at the first floor and tripartite windows with narrow outer lights in the flanking bays.

The south elevation has an advanced bay to the right of centre, which includes a full-height canted tripartite window, alongside a modern extension on the outer right. There is also a further extension on the ground left, featuring a stair window above at centre and a bipartite window to the outer left, with two canted, tripartite, slate-hung dormer windows above.

The east elevation shows a window on each floor in the bay to the outer right, with a chimney gable and a modern extension projecting to the left. The west elevation has a window on each floor in the bay to the outer left, smaller windows at the centre, and a piend-roofed wing projecting to the outer right.

The windows are timber sash and case with four-pane and plate glass glazing patterns, and the stair window features a coloured margin. The roof is covered with grey slates, displaying a fish-scale pattern on the dormer window aprons. Coped ashlar skews and cavetto-coped ashlar stacks with 'mitred can dividers' complete the roofline.

Inside, the property boasts decorative plasterwork cornicing and ceiling roses, along with panelled shutters. There is a screen door with etched glass, a dog-leg stair with timber balusters and finialled newel posts, and coloured and patterned margins on the stair window. The marble fireplaces include a brown one in the southeast room, which has two alcoves and coloured top lights to the canted window.

The boundary walls are made of coped rubble and brick.