2, 4, 6, 8 Somerville Street, Burntisland

2, 4, 6, 8 Somerville Street in Burntisland is a three-storey corner tenement building dating from 1886, featuring a shop on the ground floor. The structure is built of stugged squared sandstone with polished quoins, a base, band, and eaves courses. It has tabbed windows and doors, stone mullions, hoodmoulds, and stop-chamfered arrises. The shopfront, which is painted and corniced, wraps around the corner.

On the northwest corner elevation, there is a part-glazed two-leaf shop door set within a moulded and pedimented doorcase, adorned with floreate S-scroll capitals, a curved canopy, and a balcony with a balustrade, flanked by panelled dies. The first-floor window features a ropework roll-moulding, a date plaque with a lion rampant, and a hoodmould with male and female mask label-stops. Above, a window at the second floor is situated below a stepped wallhead parapet, flanked by ball-finialled dies, all located in a slightly recessed bay.

The northern elevation facing Somerville Street includes two display windows with basket-arched heads to the right, positioned below a band course and cornice that continues from the shopfront on the northwest. A panelled door is located at the centre, featuring a bipartite fanlight and a roll-moulded doorcase with a hoodmould, while a modern shop door and window are found to the left. The first floor has a window in the centre and to the right, with a bipartite window to the left, and regular fenestration on the second floor.

On the western elevation facing Kirkgate, there are three display windows with basket-arched heads, one of which is blocked as a door. Below the abacus, there is a scroll and palmette bracket with stonework anthemion above to the outer right, continuing the shopfront from the northwest. There are two windows on each of the first and second floors.

The eastern elevation has a wall abutting at the centre at first-floor height, with a window to the right of centre on both the first and second floors. The building features a four-pane glazing pattern in timber sash and case windows, with eight-pane upper sashes over two-pane lower sashes in the traditional display windows, and plate glass glazing in the modern display window. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are shouldered and heavily coped ashlar wallhead stacks with cans to the north, as well as coped ashlar stacks with cans to the east and south. Decorative cast-iron downpipes with lion rainwater hoppers complete the exterior.