The Red House, Wemyss Castle

The Red House at Wemyss Castle is a later 19th-century tower house, which may include some earlier elements. It features three storeys with a round stair tower that transitions to a square shape, and a two-storey house with an attic and three bays, characterized by shaped gables and a round tower. The building is constructed from squared and snecked red sandstone rubble, with harled shaped gables and a corbel table on the tower house. There is a segmental-headed door.

On the southwest elevation, the tower house is located in the bay to the left of center, featuring a window at the first floor beneath a relieving arch and two windows on the second floor, with a corbel table above leading to a block parapet that has two water spouts and a round bartizan on the outer right. The house to the right has an advanced bay under a catslide roof on the left, with two windows at ground level and a single centrally positioned window at the first floor, along with a segmental-headed door at ground level and a small first-floor window on the return to the left. There is a bowed bay with three windows on each floor and a blocking course in the re-entrant angle to the right, along with a bipartite timber dormer window above that has a shaped gable to the southeast. There are additional windows in the bay to the right of center, which has a flat roof and another set-back shaped gable. The outer right angle features a flat-topped round tower with a gunloop at ground level and a corbel course at the third stage, topped with a small square window.

On the northwest elevation, there are two windows to the right of center at ground level and a centrally positioned single window above. The round stair tower is located at the outer left angle, featuring a door to the southwest below a carved panel and a glazed gunloop near the corbel course, topped with a square caphouse that has a small window and a crowstepped gable.

The windows are timber sash and case with small-pane glazing patterns, and the roof is covered with grey slates. The building has coped ashlar stacks with some cans and ashlar skews.