Cromwell House, 34 Cromwell Road, Burntisland

Cromwell House, located at 34 Cromwell Road in Burntisland, is an earlier 19th-century house that has undergone later alterations. It is a two-storey building with an attic and features a three-bay design. The exterior is made of narrow coursed stugged ashlar and squared and snecked rubble, with a harled extension. Notable architectural details include a base course, a first-floor cill course, and a moulded eaves cornice. The ground floor openings are corniced with raised margins, and there is an architraved doorcase, quoin strips, and stone mullions.

The southeast elevation is symmetrical, with three steps leading up to a deep-set panelled door that has a plate glass fanlight and an architraved surround at the center. There are tripartite windows in the flanking bays, with the left window featuring false lights. The first floor has three windows, and there are canted, piend-roofed dormer windows above the right and left bays.

On the northwest elevation, there is an advanced flat-roofed extension in the center, which includes two small windows at ground level and a window above to the right, along with a timber door on the return to the right. The original building has windows on both floors of the right and left bays, with a reduced window at the center of the first floor. A 19th-century rooflight is located at the center, flanked by piended slate-hung dormer windows.

The northwest elevation features a false window at the center of the first floor with a single pane opening. The windows throughout the house include a mix of 12-pane, 4-pane, and plate glass glazing patterns in timber sash and case windows, with a fixed plate glass window in the extension. The roof is covered with graded grey slates, and there are coped ashlar gablehead stacks with some polygonal cans, as well as ashlar coped skews and thackstanes.

Inside, the house features a dog-leg stair with decorative cast-iron balusters and a timber handrail. The ground floor includes decorative plasterwork cornicing and a ceiling rose, along with a timber fireplace, dado rail, and shutters.

The property also includes a rectangular-plan timber conservatory with a stone base, horizontal air vents, and a full-length raised ridge at the roof apex topped with ball and spike finials.

There are single-storey painted rubble outbuildings on the property, some of which have been partly converted into garages. The extensive boundary walls are made of coped rubble, featuring a timber pedestrian gate in a corniced and pilastered entrance to the northwest, as well as another timber gate to the southeast. The entrance is marked by pyramid-coped ashlar gatepiers and modern cast-iron gates.