Muir's House, West Green, Culross is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 January 1972. House. 4 related planning applications.

Muir's House, West Green, Culross

WRENN ID
broken-marble-nightshade
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Dunfermline and Dollar MP: Graeme Downie (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 January 1972
Type
House
Address
Muir's House, West Green, Culross, KY12 8JH
OS grid reference
NS 984 859
Coordinates
56.05532, -3.6317
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Muir’s House is a three-storey, five-bay house dating to 1636, with later alterations. It is rectangular in plan and has harled walls, with exposed stone used for window and door surrounds. Decorative dormerheads are present on the east side.

The principal east elevation features an entrance door in the second bay, with a National Trust for Scotland plaque and lamp positioned above it. To the left of the door is a horizontal window, and to the right, a standard window. A blocked door sits in the rightmost bay, also with exposed stone surrounds, and a small window is to the left of the door. A small first-floor window is at the first bay, and another window is to its right. A window, possibly a former door, is located at the third bay on the first floor, appearing half-blocked. Above the door on the far right is another window. A pedimented dormer is present on the left, featuring reeded carving within the pediment, projecting scrolls to the rakes, and a thistle finial. On the right, another pedimented dormer has projecting scrolls to the rakes, an inscribed tympanum reading 'PK ME 1636', mullet symbols, and a mullet within a round finial. A lean-to extends to the far right, featuring a ground floor window.

The south elevation is attached to The House at West Green. The west elevation shows a central ground floor window, with a window to the left. Above these are first-floor windows to the left and right. Catslide dormer windows are on the right and left sides. A lean-to extends to the far left, with a ground floor window.

The north elevation is a plain gable, with a lean-to extension at ground floor level, a central door, and flanking windows.

The house has 12-pane timber sash and case windows and a replacement timber studded door with a tirling pin. The roof is pitched and slate-covered, with a crowstepped gable to the north and coped gable apex stacks.

The interior includes a ground floor north room with a large, currently blocked-up fireplace in the north gable, featuring an exposed sandstone surround and a nook to the left of the fireplace. This room also contains a bed recess in the east wall. The southeast room on the first floor has a large fireplace in the south wall, with a sandstone surround and a substantial stone lintel. The first-floor north room has exposed rubble sandstone walls to the north and east, a large fireplace in the north wall with a slightly chamfered stone surround and a large stone lintel, a blocked window to the right of the fireplace set back at floor level, and a recess in the east wall, possibly another bed recess. The second-floor north room is a small square room with a coved, plastered ceiling featuring moulded ribs, winged heads, and an eight-pronged star within a central circle.

Local climate

Muir's House, West Green, Culross sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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