13 Abbey Park Place, Dunfermline

This is a two-storey and basement villa, dating from around 1860. It was originally a detached house, comprising a three-bay main block with a short, two-storey wing set back to the south. The design is Classical in style. The main, north-facing elevation is of polished sandstone ashlar, while elsewhere, the exterior is of coursed, stugged sandstone with ashlar dressings. A moulded architrave surrounds the windows on the main elevation, and V-jointed angle quoins are visible on the main block’s north elevation and southwest corner.

The principal (north) elevation features a central entrance to the main block, highlighted by an open porch with a dentilled cornice supported by a pair of semi-Composite columns. Pilasters with rounded upper corners and moulded reveals flank the doorway, above which is an engraved rectangular fanlight. There is a six-panel timber door. Windows are present on the ground and first floors of the flanking bays, and one above the entrance. The ground floor windows are corniced. To the left is a short wing set back, with a window in each bay on the first floor. A later wall with a central gateway projects forward at ground level, sheltering a corrugated plastic lean-to roof; ground floor windows are set back behind this.

The south elevation features canted flanking bays to the main block, each with band courses above the first-floor windows. These bays have a three-light mullioned window on each storey, except for the outer left bay of the basement, which has a single-light window. A narrow window is present on each floor of the central bay. The projecting short wing to the right has a string course separating the upper floors. The left bay is set back slightly, with a vennel entrance to the basement and a corniced opening above (now blocked); a window is present on the first floor. The projecting right bay contains three blocked narrow windows on the ground floor, and a three-light mullioned window on each floor above, the ground-floor window being corniced. A large, blocked basement opening is visible on the west return.

The west elevation is built into a sloping ground and is otherwise blank, with only two small openings visible to the left of the basement.

The interior was not inspected in 1998. The building has mainly four- and ten-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is of piended grey slate, with corniced stacks on the east and west sides of the main block, and a narrower pitch stack on the east wing. Most of the chimney cans are now missing.