18 Carriden Brae, Muirhouses, Bo'Ness

Dated 1873. 2 single storey and attic attached cottages forming L-plan cottage orné. Predominantly squared and snecked tooled sandstone. Overhanging eaves. Droved chamfered window and door openings.

W (PRINCIPAL ELEVATION): (No 18) gabled porch in low wing to left with 1873 datestone. 4 bays to right.

S ELEVATION: (Nos 18 and 19) half-hipped 2-bay end gable to left (No 18); 2 bays recessed to right with further low recessed wing to far right with entrance door (No 19).

N ELEVATION: (No 19) 4-bay with low recessed wing containing lavatory, outhouse, coal cellar and doorway to garden.

Modern replacement lattice-effect glazing to No 18. No 19 original leaded lattice glazing (except S elevation, window to right of end gable) and only surviving blind lattice window, previously common to all cottages. Modern entrance door to No 18. Original plain timber boarded door to No 19 (S elevation). Graded grey slates. Gable end stack to N, ridge stack at junction between 18 and 19.

INTERIOR: No 18 modernised. No 19 exceptional, best preserved of Muirhouses cottages. Original floor plan still extant. Entrance door on S elevation leads into flagged passageway, entrance to cottage to the left, to garden straight ahead, and to coal cellar on right. Simple timber door with latch into cottage. Passageway leads to scullery (now kitchen), narrow pantry (now lavatory), further room opposite with 4-panel door, and kitchen at end (now sitting room, range replaced by gas fire). Kitchen has two bed recesses and original shutters. Doors simple boarded timber.

BOUNDARY WALLS: to W, coping stones of boundary wall with timber fence above.