Outhouse And Garden Wall, School, Low Causeway, Culross is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 December 1979. Former school, residential.

Outhouse And Garden Wall, School, Low Causeway, Culross

WRENN ID
gaunt-thatch-vermeil
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
19 December 1979
Type
Former school, residential
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

Later-late 19th century, incorporating decorative architectural fragments. 2-storey and attic L-plan building, former school, now 4 flats. Tooled rubble; ashlar margins, eaves course and quoins. Chamfered window surrounds to NW; chamfered door surrounds to SW.

NW ELEVATION: gable to left; base course. Central bipartite ground floor and 1st floor window; louvred attic opening; curvilinear pediment with flanking scrolls and fleur-de-lis in tympanum and finial. Consoles to gable. Wing set back to right. Door to left; narrow fanlight; moulded pediment inserted above; flanking scrolls; quatrefoil finial; initials WS BG in tympanum, dated 1612 below. 3 ground floor windows to right of door. 2 1st floor dormer windows; (bipartite to left). Single storey piended extension set back to far right; door to left; window to right.

NE ELEVATION: 2 ground floor windows to left; bipartite window to right; blocked door to far right. 1st floor dormer window to left; possible blocked door to left. Tripartite dormer window to right.

SE ELEVATION: 4 ground floor windows; bipartite dormer window to left; 2 dormer windows to right. Gable to far right; ground floor window to left; bipartite window to right. 2 1st floor windows; central attic window. Single storey extension to far left; plain elevation.

SW ELEVATION: gable end to right; central ground floor window; 2 inserted pediments at 1st floor; triangular decoration to left pediment; scrolls to right. Central attic ventilation slit. Single storey extension advanced to right; central window. Section set back to left; 2 doors; bipartite dormer window above.

2-leaf panelled door to flat 1C; replacement doors elsewhere. 2-leaf timber sash and case windows with horns. Rooflights to single storey extension. Pitched slate roofs; piended dormers and single storey extension. Timber bargeboard to NW gable; ashlar coping to SW gable. Corniced able apex stack to NW; coped gable apex stack to SW; replacement gable apex stack to SE; wallhead stack to SE; circular cans.

INTERIOR: modernised interiors.

OUTHOUSE AND GARDEN WALL

Lean-to SE; exposed rubble walls; door in NE; window to SE; tooled quoins; slight chamfer to NE quoin; slate roof. Rubble garden wall; ashlar coping stones bounds garden to SE.

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