Bank, 25-27 East Port, Dunfermline

This is a two-storey and attic bank, likely constructed in 1873, possibly by David MacGibbon. It is a semi-detached office building, and may originally have been a bank. The design is Scottish Baronial, exhibiting an asymmetrical composition with a crowstepped gable and pedimented dormers.

The building is constructed of coursed, snecked, rockfaced sandstone with stugged sandstone ashlar dressings and polished ashlar detailing. A base course, hood-moulded band courses above the ground and first floor windows (with gablets at the centre of each lintel), and an eaves band with a parapet, all define the principal (north) elevation. Chamfered cills and roll-moulded surrounds frame the individual openings to the ground and first floors. Corniced lintels and semicircular pediments (featuring a shield at the centre) top the dormers. Coped gables and angle quoins further contribute to the aesthetic.

The north elevation features a shallow ashlar porch at the outer right, leading to a round-arched doorway with carved spandrels and a two-leaf panelled timber door. Above the door is a cornice and cablemoulding with a crowned head at the centre, and a parapet bearing the Burgh arms. A three-light mullion window sits recessed slightly under a segmental arch. Four bays to the right project slightly and incorporate an entrance with a canted lintel, a panelled timber door with a fanlight, and a cablemoulded hood-mould stopped at carved heads. Three round-arched windows with carved spandrels complete the right side of the elevation. The first floor is regularly fenestrated, with a window in each bay. Two bays on the outer right are set back slightly from the ground floor bays, except around the centre where it rises flush with the ground floor to reach the crowstepped gable, which has a thistle finial. An eaves band steps up towards the centre of the pediment over a panel; flanking miniature semicircular pediments further embellish the design. Two dormers are present on the left section, with a projecting wallhead stack bearing the date 'AD 1873' in between.

The west elevation is irregularly fenestrated and features a band course at the level of the first floor cills. The south elevation reveals gabled dormers to the attic and a later harled gabled extension on the left.

Replacement aluminium windows are present on the ground floor of the principal elevation; above, original four-pane timber sash and case windows remain. A grey slate roof tops the building. A shouldered projecting wallhead stack corbelled out over the first-floor windows, is ornamented with a band course and moulded bracketed coping on the north side, alongside round cans with louvred vents. Coped wallhead stacks with band courses are present on the east and west sides, with the easterly stack being shouldered. Original rainwater goods with moulded heads are visible on the principal elevation.

The ground floor interior has been modernised. A dog-leg staircase with winders, a cast iron balustrade, and a border-glazed stair window are found in No. 27.