20 Carriden Brae, Muirhouses, Bo'Ness

Dated 1864. 2 single storey and attic attached cottages forming L-plan, cottage orné. Predominantly squared and snecked tooled sandstone. Overhanging eaves. Droved chamfered openings.

W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: (No 20)Gabled porch in low wing to left with 1864 datestone. 4 bays to right.

N ELEVATION: 4 bay, gabled low wing to right attached to end gable, both rubble. Low 3-bay rubble wing to left, with 2 doors.

CARRIDEN COTTAGE S ELEVATION: half-hipped 2-bay end gable to left (No 20); 2-bays recessed to right with further low recessed rubble wing attached to right with entrance door.

Modern windows and replacement door to W elevation. Modern windows and door to S elevation. Some original leaded lattice glazing to N elevation. Graded grey slates. Partial stack to N, stack to E, with ridge stack between No 20 and Carriden Cottage.

INTERIOR: (No 20) partly altered, with possible original washhouse now converted to form modern bathroom. Evidence of original 4 small rooms/box beds plan to front of cottage still discernible. (Carriden Cottage) modernised, with further renovations (2003).

ANCILLARY STRUCTURES & BOUNDARY WALLS: Coping stones from previous boundary wall to W, attached to short section of rubble wall with plain square gate pier. PIG STY: (In garden of No 20) rubble-built enclosure with semi-circular coping.