14-16 Buchanan Street, Dunfermline

The outhouse located in the backyard of 14-16 Buchanan Street in Dunfermline dates from the earlier 19th century and was built in two phases. It is a single storey and attic structure, part of a terrace that includes a pair of three-bay cottages, with Nos 14-18 being flatted. The cottages feature classical pilastered doorcases on the principal south elevation. They are constructed from coursed dressed droved sandstone, accented with polished ashlar dressings, and have a droved base course and eaves course, along with coped gables.

On the south elevation, there is a central pilastered entrance with a corniced frieze for the left cottage (No 16), which includes a panelled timber door and a rectangular fanlight. Flanking windows are present on each floor, with additional windows in the attic featuring polygonal piended dormers. The right cottage (No 18) also has a pilastered entrance with a corniced entablature, a panelled timber door, and a rectangular fanlight, along with two windows on the ground and first floors and one above.

The north elevation displays slightly irregular fenestration, with the left cottage (No 18) set forward slightly. There is a central entrance for the right cottage (No 14) featuring a panelled timber door and a rectangular fanlight, with a stair window above. The roof is raised slightly in a catslide above this entrance. A late 20th-century single-storey harled extension is located to the left.

Modern aluminium replacement windows have been installed in No 16, while No 14 retains two-pane timber sash and case windows above, and No 18 has mainly 8-pane timber sash and case windows. The roofs are covered with grey slate, and there is a coursed sandstone ridge stack with a band course between the two cottages, along with a replacement coped rendered gablehead stack to the west.

The interior of the cottages was not inspected in 1998. The outhouse is a single-storey lean-to structure made of coursed sandstone rubble, featuring droved sandstone dressings on the northwest side. It has three entrances with boarded timber doors on the principal east elevation, along with a window located between the doors on the right.