The Ark, The Cross, Culross

17th century. 2-storey and attic, 5-bay, rectangular-plan house. Sandstone rubble walls; harled exterior. Exposed stone surrounds. Exposed stone eaves course.

NW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: advanced bay to far left; entrance door to ground floor; roll-moulded surround. 1st floor window above to left. National Trust for Scotland (NTS) plaque to left. Left quoin partly chamfered. Bay set back to right; ground floor window to right; 1st floor window above to left. Right quoin chamfered with quoin stop at eaves. 3-bay section set back to right. Door to left; chamfered surround; 2 windows to right. 3 1st floor windows centred above (smaller central window, without stone surround). Right quoin chamfered to approximately ground floor ceiling height.

NE ELEVATION: ground floor window to left; 1st floor window centred above and to right. Stone eaves course painted white.

SE ELEVATION: not visible, obscured by parallel Little Causeway, Ark B.

SW ELEVATION: partially seen. 1st floor window to left and right. 2 central attic windows.

Replacement 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Studded timber boarded doors; tirling pin to both. Pitched roof to SW; piended to NE; clay pantiles. Gable apex stack to SW; polygonal clay cans.

INTERIOR: modernised interior. Exposed 1? stone arch at 1st floor on SE wall.

ADJACENT WALL

L-plan harled wall set back slightly from SW gable encloses yard to SW. Curved quoin; exposed flat coping stones; window/chute to left; door to right in NW elevation.