2, 4, 6, 8 Somerville Street, Burntisland

Dated 1886. 3-storey corner tenement with shop at ground. Stugged squared sandstone with polished quoins, base, band and eaves courses; tabbed windows and doors, stone mullions, hoodmoulds and stop chamfered arrises. Painted, corniced shopfront clasping corner.

NW (CORNER) ELEVATION: part-glazed 2-leaf shop door in moulded and pedimented doorcase with floreate S-scroll capitals, curved canopy and balcony with balustrade flanked by panelled dies; 1st floor window with ropework roll-moulding, date plaque with lion rampant and hoodmould with male and female mask label-stops; window at 2nd floor below stepped wallhead parapet flanked by ball-finialled dies, all in slightly recessed bay.

N (SOMERVILLE STREET) ELEVATION: 2 display windows with basket-arched heads to right below band course and cornice (continuation of shop front from NW); panelled door at centre with bipartite fanlight and roll-moulded doorcase with hoodmould, modern shop door and window to left. 1st floor with window to centre and to right, bipartite window to left; regular fenestration to 2nd floor.

W (KIRKGATE) ELEVATION: 3 display windows with basket-arched heads

(1 blocked as door), scroll and palmette bracket below abacus with stonework anthemion above to outer right, (continuation of shop front from NW). 2 windows to each of 1st and 2nd floors.

E ELEVATION: wall abutting at centre at 1st floor height, window to right of centre at 1st and 2nd floor.

4-pane glazing pattern in timber sash and case windows, 8-pane upper sashes over 2-pane lower sashes in traditional display windows, plate glass glazing in modern display window. Grey slates. Shouldered and heavily coped ashlar wallhead stacks with cans to N, coped ashlar stacks with cans to E and S; cast-iron downpipes with decorative (lion) rainwater hoppers.