The Old Inn, 11, 13, 15 Kirkgate, Dunfermline

The Old Inn is a late 19th-century rebuilding of an earlier structure, with alterations made in the late 20th century. It comprises a narrow, rectangular main block of three storeys and an attic, alongside a large, rectangular-shaped rear wing. The principal (east) elevation is heavily fenestrated, featuring a prominent central oriel bay extending over two floors, topped with a conical roof and flanked by dormers. The front of the building is rendered with painted ashlar dressings, while the south gable is brick and the north elevation of the main block is of coursed dressed stone; the rear wing is harled. A band course, eaves cornice, and moulded eaves band run along the principal elevation, with ashlar architraves framing the first and second-floor windows.

The central entrance on the east elevation is a largely late 20th-century pub frontage, with a roll-moulded timber architrave and a part-glazed timber door. To the left are two further entrances, with chamfered and stopped timber architraves and part-glazed timber doors; the outer left entrance provides access to a pend. A three-light window with chamfered and stopped timber mullions and architrave is situated to the right. The projecting central oriel bay features a five-light window on each of the first and second floors. The lower window is corbelled out over the ground-floor entrance and has ball mouldings beneath the sill; the upper one is corbelled out slightly further and has a crenellated parapet. Both oriel windows have chamfered and stopped mullions and lintels. Single windows flank the oriel bay on each floor, all with chamfered and stopped surrounds. A semi-octagonal, conical-roofed dormer sits centrally above, topped with a lead finial and windows to three outer faces. Flanking this are three-light gabled dormers with timber bargeboards, pendant cross-braced finals, overhanging eaves, and two pairs of squat pilasters beneath the sills. Moulded brackets flank the eaves.

The north elevation, built into a sloping ground, has a coped, truncated gable end of the main block, which is blank. An irregularly fenestrated rear wing extends to the right. The west elevation provides an irregular fenestration to the rear wing, which adjoins the main block.

The windows are mostly 2 and 4-pane timber sash and case windows, and 4 and 8-pane casements with top-opening sections on the principal elevation. The steeply pitched roof has a truncated gable on the main block, with steeply pitched flanking wallhead stacks to the gable ends; the stack on the south side is largely rendered with moulded coping, while the stack on the right is of coursed stugged sandstone, topped with octagonal cans.