WHYTE HOUSE

KIRKCALDY CIVIC SOCIETY

The Whyte House was built in 1790 for Robert Whyte a former Provost of Kirkcaldy.

Whytescauseway, Whytehouse Mansions and Whytehouse Avenue once encircled the house and

access to view the building was down a lane from Park Road.

This once beautiful but neglected building had been under threat of demolition for many years and was demolished late 2007 / early 2008.

The Whyte House was a B Listed structure, built of sandstone with double doric pilasters below the pediment.

Marjory Fleming's parents first met at a ball held in the Whyte House by Provost Fergus.

Marjory  was a child prodigy whom Robert Louis Stevenson called...

"the youngest immortal in the world of letters"

The grounds of the house were sold off by the Whytes over the years and by 1900 the estate had passed out of family ownership.

Around 1908 the house became Anthony’s Temperance Hotel, the towns first Anthony's Hotel which later moved to West Albert Road.

In 1953 it was converted to flats and offices for the Carlton Bakery. The bakery moved out in 1998.

Photos by Don Swanson