Miners' Welfare Institute And War Memorial, Main Street, Coaltown Of Wemyss

The Miners' Welfare Institute and War Memorial, located on Main Street in Coaltown of Wemyss, was designed by A Stewart Tod in 1923. This single-storey building is L-shaped with a piend roof, featuring traditional Scottish 17th century details. It includes an ogee-topped lantern, a balustraded polygonal porch, and a classical ashlar war memorial set against the south wall. The exterior is harled with painted margins and has an eaves course, with architraved doors and porch windows.

On the southeast elevation, there is an advanced bay to the right of the center that includes the attached war memorial and a window on the return to the left. To the left, there is a slightly lower bay with a bipartite window, and a full-height porch in the re-entrant angle at the center, which has a two-leaf timber door below a moulded panel inscribed with 'MINERS WELFARE INSTITUTE 1923', along with small keystoned windows on the flanks.

The northeast elevation features an advanced pedimented doorpiece in the bay to the left of the center, topped with a lantern at the roof ridge. There is a window to the outer left and three windows to the right, along with a lower, slightly recessed bay that has two windows to the outer right. The building has 4- and 12-pane glazing patterns in timber sash and case windows, red pantiles on the roof, and cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers.

The war memorial has a deep base course that leads to a pilastered second stage with flanking shaped margins. It features a roll of honour at the center below the inscription 'IN MEMORY OF THE MEN OF THIS VILLAGE WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918', with a corniced open pediment above. A small stone commemorating the fallen of World War II is inserted at the base of the pilasters.