78-80 High Street, Dunfermline

78-80 High Street in Dunfermline is a late 19th-century, three-storey and attic, three-bay terraced commercial building that features an advanced shopfront on the ground floor. The building showcases a symmetrical Renaissance design, characterized by corniced windows on the first floor, pedimented dormers, and pilasters on the principal south elevation. The principal elevation is finished in polished ashlar, with a band course that connects the lintels of the second-floor windows, creating a frieze beneath the moulded eaves cornice. The first and second-floor windows have moulded architraves, with the second-floor windows featuring bracketed cills.

The south elevation includes an advanced shopfront with an ashlar surround, flanked by semi-rusticated pilaster strips, a fascia with brackets above, and a dentilled cornice. The shopfront has a late 20th-century recessed entrance and large display windows on either side. A pilaster with a modillioned cornice is located at the corner of the right return, alongside a semi-rusticated section of wall. A balcony is formed over the projecting section of the ground floor, featuring a geometric cast-iron balustrade with an overlapping circle motif, and square-plan piers with recessed panels and moulded coping at the angles. The first and second floors have regular fenestration, with a window in each bay, and a semi-rusticated pilaster on the left. Above, there is a pair of rectangular dormers.

The northeast elevation consists of coursed stugged sandstone and a partially harled extension. The building has two-pane timber sash and case windows, a grey slate roof with felted dormers, and an ashlar and coursed sandstone gablehead stack with a moulded cornice to the west. The interior was not inspected in 1998.