Muir's House, West Green, Culross

Dated 1636; later alterations. 3-storey; 5-bay, rectangular-plan house. Harled walls; exposed stonework to windows and door surrounds. Decorative dormerheads to E.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: entrance door at 2nd bay; National Trust for Scotland (NTS) plaque above; lamp above door to right; horizontal window to left of door; window to right. Blocked door to far right bay; exposed stone surrounds; small window to left of door. Small 1st floor window at 1st bay; window to right. Window (possible former door) at 3rd bay, 1st floor (half blocked); window above door to far right. Pedimented dormer to left; reeded carving within pediment; projecting scrolls to rakes; thistle finial. Pedimented dormer to right; projecting scrolls to rakes; inscribed tympanum 'PK ME 1636', mullet, symbols; mullet within round finial. Lean-to to far right; ground floor window.

S ELEVATION: attached to The House at West Green.

W ELEVATION: central ground floor window; window to left. 1st floor window to left and right. Catslide dormer window to right and left. Lean-to to far left; ground floor window.

N ELEVATION: plain gable. Lean-to extension at ground floor; central door; flanking windows.

12-pane timber sash and case windows. Replacement timber studded door; tirling pin. Pitched, slate roof; crowstepped gable to N. Coped gable apex stacks.

INTERIOR: ground floor N room; large fireplace in N gable (currently blocked up, 2001); exposed sandstone surround; nook to left of fireplace. Ground floor N room, bed recess in E wall. 1st floor SE room, large fireplace in S wall, sandstone surround including huge lintel. 1st floor N room; exposed rubble sandstone walls to N and E. Large fireplace in N wall; slight chamfer to stone surround; large stone lintel. Blocked window to right of fireplace, set back, at floor level. Recess in E wall (possibly another bed recess). 2nd floor N room; small square room with coved ceiling and plastered ceiling; moulded ribs; winged heads; 8-pronged star within central circle.