The Haven, Low Causeway, Culross

Dated 1623. 2-storey and attic, rectangular-plan house with later (possibly 17-18th century) 2-storey addition to street front, creating an L-plan house. Painted ashlar margins. Pink coloured harling.

N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: advanced section; central door, moulded surround; window to left. 1st floor window above door to left. 1st floor stair window in right return. Squat piended dormer window to centre. Section set back to right; ground floor window of An Cala; small 1st floor window above. Narrow bulge of turnpike stair in angle; tiny diamond-shaped window within.

E ELEVATION: 1st floor window to left; tiny diamond-shaped window to right; small square attic window to left.

S ELEVATION: ground floor door into modern single storey conservatory to right; 2 ground floor windows to left. 1st floor door to left; external metal spiral staircase. 1st floor window to right. 2 1st floor catslide dormer windows breaking eaves.

W ELEVATION: attached to An Cala.

Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Timber boarded door. Pitched slate roof. Crowstepped gables to original house; inscribed stone below NW skewputt; 'ANNO 1623'. Coped gable apex stacks. Lower, steeper roof pitch of former adjacent building visible on W gable (now replaced by much lower An Cala).

INTERIOR: single room depth to house. Fireplace to ground floor, E wall. Arched openings to windows in S wall. Possible large fireplace in W wall; niche to right. Staircase to W of entrance door; corbelled ashlar stonework exposed to W, 1st floor (former external wall). Taller room at 1st floor; cornicing with roses. Timber panelled shutters to windows. Roll-moulded fireplace in W wall (probably inserted 1970). Narrow section to street frontage with tiny window. Arched alcove in NW wall to window; recess to left of fireplace (possible former doorway leading to adjacent house). Turnpike stair to N leads to attic floor; tiny window within stairway. 2 attic rooms; coved ceilings.

GARDEN WALL

Tall garden rubble stone wall extends southwards from SE gable.