Central Chambers, 160-164 High Street, Kirkcaldy

Central Chambers, located at 160-164 High Street in Kirkcaldy, was built in 1868 in the style of Sir Robert Rowand Anderson and altered in 1910 by William Williamson. This is a three-storey building with an attic, designed in the Italian Gothic style, featuring a shop on the ground floor. The exterior is made of small, dressed squared rubble blocks with long polished dressings, while the sides and rear are finished with polished ashlar and rubble. The building has a cornice on the first floor, with cill courses on the second floor and attic. The windows have segmental, pointed, and shoulder-arch openings, with pedimented window heads, voussoirs, hoodmoulds, stop-chamfered arrises, and stone transoms and mullions.

On the north elevation facing High Street, the design is symmetrical above the ground floor. The ground floor features a wide segmental-arched pend entrance to George Burn Wynd on the right, with a modern shop to the left. The first floor has four hoodmoulded, shouldered, and transomed bipartite windows, each topped with blind oculi in the apex. The second floor also has four bipartite windows, each with chamfered lintels and a colonnette mullion with a foliate capital. At the attic level, there is a central gable with an over-arched bipartite gothic window that has a monogrammed 'JES' in the apex, flanked by lozenge stacks on battered plinths, which are set back from the skews and topped with finialled, gabletted, pointed-arch dormer windows in the flanking bays.

The west elevation facing George Burn Wynd has two ashlar bays on the ground floor, each featuring a corniced and pilastered doorcase, with a further door situated between them and asymmetrical fenestration. The north elevation includes a bay to the left above the pend with a window on each floor, the third-floor window being pedimented and breaking the eaves, while an advanced gable to the right has a window on the third floor.

The building features plate glass glazing in timber sash and case windows, with a six-pane glazing pattern in the top-opening windows at the rear. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are coped ashlar stacks with some chimney cans, ashlar-coped skews, and gablet skewputts. Additionally, there are cast-iron downpipes and decorative rainwater hoppers with animal-head spouts.