Nether Catrine House, St Germain Street, Catrine

Nether Catrine House is an 18th century building that originally served as a rural Laird's house, with the village of Catrine developing around it. The house has two storeys plus an attic, featuring a south front with three bays and a four-bay rear. It was constructed in two phases; the earlier phase likely dates to 1682, as indicated by a panel on the rear wall, and consisted of a plain rectangular-plan gabled house. A pedimented entrance bay, complete with urns, was added centrally on the south front, probably in the third quarter of the 18th century, transforming it into a T-plan house. Many of the front windows were altered during this time, featuring raised flat margins and consoled cills, with a single ground floor window enlarged around 1950. The wall-heads may have been raised during this period as well. The main cornice on the front relates to the 18th century work, while the skewputts above and the main cornice at the rear are likely original. The chimney stacks are from the 20th century, although there is a single wall-head stack at the rear. The house has a steep-pitched, slightly bell-cast slate roof and is constructed of painted rubble with ashlar dressings. It has asymmetrical low flanking wings; the east wing may be 18th century and was formerly a bakery, with its door now partly blocked to form a window, and is currently used as a garage with large slapping. The west wing likely dates from the second half of the 19th century, is longer, and has a roof covered with corrugated sheeting.

Inside, the house retains much of its early work, including a stair contained within an added gable, numerous panelled timber doors within architraves, a stone basket-arched fireplace on the east gable, decorative cornice plasterwork, and two niches in the first floor room to the west.