2 King Street, Inverkeithing

2 King Street in Inverkeithing is an early 19th-century, two-storey villa with an attic and part basement, designed in a plain classical style. The building has a rectangular plan and features later extensions to the north and east. The southern elevation is constructed from squared coursed rubble, while the eastern, northern, and western sides are rendered. It includes base, band, and eaves courses, painted margins, stone cills, and raised ashlar quoins. The entrance has a pilastered doorpiece, and there are rectangular dormers and a full-height round stair tower at the rear.

On the southern elevation, the central entrance features a pilastered stop-chamfered doorpiece with a timber panelled door and a plain fanlight, flanked by windows. The first floor has three evenly spaced windows close to the eaves, along with two rectangular dormers with slate cheeks and a central cast-iron rooflight. To the right, there is a slightly recessed two-storey extension with a pitched roof, which includes a timber boarded garage door at the basement level and a painted blind window above at ground level.

The eastern elevation has an advanced two-storey pitched roof extension at the center with a plain gable end and first-floor windows in the outer bays. The northern elevation features five bays with irregular fenestration, including a central full-height round stair tower topped with a conical roof, a long stair window, and a door to the right return. There is a box dormer to the left of the stair tower, and a full-height flat-roof extension to the outer bay on the right. To the left, there is a pitched, slightly recessed two-storey extension with a window at ground level above a raised basement.

The western elevation is a plain gable with a full-height flat roof extension slightly advanced to the left, abutting a canted boundary wall. The building has 20th-century metal windows throughout, except for an 8-pane timber window in the stair area. The roofs are a mix of pitched and flat, covered with graded grey slates, and feature straight stone skews, beaked skewputts, coped rendered gablehead stacks, a single coped ashlar stack on the pitched-roof extension to the east, and circular clay cans.

Inside, the villa is divided into upper and lower flats, with a substantial droved stone fireplace located in the basement to the east of the plan. The boundary walls consist of a stone coped painted rubble wall that curves at the junction of King Street and Heriot Street, with the house abutting the wall to the west. There are ashlar obelisk gatepiers to the east, one of which is cement rendered.