School, Low Causeway, Culross is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 December 1979.

School, Low Causeway, Culross

WRENN ID
guardian-forge-nightshade
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
19 December 1979
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This is a late 19th-century outhouse and garden wall, originally part of a school building, now converted into four flats. The main building is L-shaped and two storeys high, with an attic. It is constructed from tooled rubble stone with ashlar margins, an eaves course, and quoins. Window and door surrounds are chamfered in places, adding decorative detail.

The northwest elevation features a gable with a base course. A central bipartite window is positioned on both the ground and first floors, and a louvred attic opening sits above. A distinctive curvilinear pediment, adorned with flanking scrolls, a fleur-de-lis in the tympanum, and a finial, tops the gable. Consoles decorate the gable. A lower wing extends to the right. A door to the left is accompanied by a narrow fanlight, with a moulded pediment above featuring scrolls and a quatrefoil finial. The tympanum of this pediment displays the initials "WS BG" and the date 1612. Three ground floor windows are situated to the right of the door, and two dormer windows are on the first floor, the left one being bipartite. A single-storey, piended extension is set back to the far right, incorporating a door to the left and a window to the right.

The northeast elevation has two ground floor windows to the left and a bipartite window to the right, with a blocked door furthest to the right. A dormer window is visible on the first floor to the left, and a possible blocked door is also present. A tripartite dormer window occupies the right side.

On the southeast elevation, four ground floor windows are present, a bipartite dormer window to the left, and two further dormer windows to the right. A gable is positioned on the far right, with a ground floor window to the left and a bipartite window to the right. Two first-floor windows are above, alongside a central attic window. A single-storey extension juts out to the far left with a plain elevation.

The southwest elevation displays a gable end to the right, featuring a central ground floor window. Two inserted pediments are visible on the first floor, one featuring triangular decoration on the left and scrolls on the right. A central attic ventilation slit is present. A single-storey extension is advanced to the right with a central window. A section is set back to the left, containing two doors and a bipartite dormer window above.

The interior spaces have been modernised. The windows are predominantly two-leaf timber sash and case windows with horns. Rooflights are present on the single-storey extension. The building is finished with pitched slate roofs, piended dormers, and roofing to the single-storey extension; timber bargeboard is visible on the northwest gable, and ashlar coping stones top the southwest gable. Corniced gable apex stacks are present on the northwest and southeast elevations, with a replaced stack on the southeast; a wallhead stack is also on the southeast, complemented by circular cans.

The outhouse, located on the southeast side, has exposed rubble walls capped by slate roofing, with entrances through the northeast and southeast sides. The rubble garden wall, capped with ashlar coping stones, bounds the garden to the southeast. A slight chamfer is visible on the northeast quoin.

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