St Margaret's Hotel, 1 Canmore Street, Dunfermline

St Margaret’s Hotel is an earlier 19th-century building with subsequent additions and alterations. It is situated in Dunfermline and is composed of a three-storey and attic main block, a two-storey wing to the east, and a lower-height extension, also to the east, dating back to the late 20th century. The original block faces north onto St Margaret's Street, while the later wing fronts onto Canmore Street.

The symmetrical elevation to St Margaret's Street features a modillioned eaves cornice and enlarged windows on the ground floor. The Canmore Street frontage is distinguished by a pair of first-floor oriel windows. The original block's ground floor is rendered to imitate ashlar, while the remaining sections of the St Margaret's Street and Canmore Street elevations are finished in painted, coursed, droved sandstone. Elsewhere, the materials are coursed rubble and harling, with mainly polished ashlar dressings. An eaves cornice is present on both the St Margaret's Street and Canmore Street elevations, and gables are coped.

The west-facing (St Margaret’s Street) elevation has a central entrance with flanking pilasters and a replacement glazed timber door with a rectangular fanlight. Large, architraved windows flank the entrance. A bracketed and corniced timber fascia board extends around the corner to the Canmore Street elevation. Regularly spaced windows are set into the first and second floors, with one window in each of the three bays. Later, polygonal piended dormer windows are set into the attic space, with a rectangular dormer located between them.

The north-facing (Canmore Street) elevation has an architraved entrance with rounded reveals and a panelled, two-leaf timber door to the left of the main block. A window is to the left of the entrance, and a timber fascia board wraps around the corner to the St Margaret’s Street elevation. A pair of recessed, canted oriel windows are situated on the first floor of the original block, above which are a pair of blocked windows. The later wing adjoins to the left, featuring an entrance with a timber door and rectangular fanlight, with a window above and one to the outer left. There are also a pair of windows with a joined cill on the first floor. A coped boundary wall, with two entrances, adjoins the left side of the ground floor.

Twelve-pane timber sash and case windows are found on the first and second floors of the St Margaret's Street elevation, while modern, three-pane fixed frame windows are present on the ground floor. Elsewhere, on the north and west elevations, the windows are mainly two-pane timber sash and case. The original block and the late 19th-century wing have grey slate roofs. Corniced ashlar gablehead stacks mark the north and south ends of the original block, while the late 19th-century wing has a harled coped gablehead stack with round cans.

The ground floor interior has been modernised. The other floors were not inspected in 1998.