1-3 Forth Place, Burntisland

This is a mid-to-late 19th-century terrace of buildings, with later alterations. It comprises an L-plan arrangement of two and three-storey structures, including a partial attic, and incorporates the gable end of a converted coach house (number 33). A prominent rounded corner feature links the taller, three-storey gabled bays on the return elevations to Harbour Place, with a moulded cornice and parapet. The exterior is predominantly coursed, droved ashlar, with squared and snecked whinstone to the rear. Stone margins, a relieving arch, cornice, and a blocking course are also visible.

The corner bay has a recessed curved facade with a window on each of the ground and first floors, topped by a tall parapet incorporating the cornice and blocking course. Number 37, situated at the corner of Forth Place, is the taller building. The Harbour Place (west) elevation features the gable end of number 33, with a modern part-glazed door and small window. Numbers 34 to 36 are slightly taller bays. Number 35 has a modern door with a letterbox fanlight and partially blocked windows. Number 36 also features a modern door and blocked windows, with a dormer-headed window breaking the eaves.

The Forth Place (south) elevation showcases a three-storey gabled bay with a fanlit door, a window, and a further fanlit door alongside a tall, segmental cart arch. A radial-astragalled oculus is set within the gablehead window, accompanied by a piended dormer window and modern roof lights. The North (South Hill Street) elevation of number 33 has a boarded door and a window.

The rear elevations are accessed via a pend adjoining the Forth Hotel and reveal a courtyard with stable and outbuilding structures belonging to the Forth Hotel forming the eastern boundary, and the former wall of South Hill Street to the north.

Original windows feature 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case formats and a 4-pane pattern in smaller casement windows on the entrance fronts, though modern glazing is present to the rear. The roof is covered in grey slates. The building has coped ashlar stacks with some cans, ashlar coped skews, cast-iron downpipes, and a decorative rainwater hopper.