The Nunnery, Little Causeway, Culross

The Nunnery is a 17th-century two-storey, two-bay house situated in Culross, now divided into two flats. A later two-storey wing extends downhill to the south. The uphill section of the building is harled, while the later addition is of stone construction. All windows and doors in the uphill section have chamfered stone surrounds. A forestair provides access to the principal elevation.

The east-facing principal elevation features a ground floor entrance door, which leads to the ground floor flat, set below the forestair and with a chamfered stone surround to the left. A first-floor door is located above and to the right. The forestair has moulded stone steps, a replacement timber railing, and an upper step. A slightly projecting single bay section is positioned to the left, with a ground floor window and a first floor window centred above. A National Trust for Scotland plaque is affixed to the right. A single ground and first floor window are present in the right return elevation; an indecipherable inscription is visible on a stone corbel above the right of the first floor window. A lower, later section is advanced significantly to the far left, featuring a ground floor window to the right and a first-floor catslide dormer window centred above.

The south elevation displays two ground and two first floor windows. The north section has a plain south gable, with the later section attached to its right. The west elevation is plain, specifically the later south section. The west elevation of the original uphill section is partially visible, with two first floor windows. The north elevation is adjoined to The Ark B.

The windows are a mix of 12-pane timber sash and case windows, and windows featuring a 3-pane upper sash and a 6-pane lower sash. Replacement studded timber boarded doors are fitted, along with replacement tirling pins. The building has pitched roofs, with crowstepped gables to the original uphill house. A south gable end stack is present, topped with circular clay cans. The roof has been extended to create a porch over the forestair and an adjacent advanced section to the left, with a skew crowstepped detail halfway along. A moulded skewputt, carved with the head of a veiled woman, is positioned to the right (currently partially obscured by guttering). The roofs are covered in clay pantiles.

The interior has been modernised, with a coved ceiling in the upper flat. An ashlar stone doorway, leading to the original ground floor entrance (now set back from the current entrance), remains.

A timber door on the far left opens into the yard behind the south section. The yard is enclosed by rubble stone walls to the west and south, with a low rubble wall to the north. A central drain is set into the flagstone floor. A blocked door is present in the south wall. An ashlar fireplace surround and a curved stone mantel shelf are incorporated into the west wall.