The Haven, Low Causeway, Culross

The Haven is a house dated 1623. It is a two-storey and attic, rectangular-plan building with a later, possibly 17th or 18th century, two-storey addition to the street frontage, creating an L-shaped house. The walls are rendered and have painted ashlar margins.

The north (principal) elevation features the advanced section with a central doorway set within a moulded surround and a window to the left. Above the door to the left is a first-floor window, and a stair window is visible in the right return. A squat, hipped dormer window sits centrally. To the right, the building steps back, revealing a ground-floor window belonging to the adjacent property, An Cala, and a small first-floor window above. A narrow projection houses a turnpike stair, containing a tiny diamond-shaped window.

The east elevation features a first-floor window to the left, a small diamond-shaped window to the right, and a small square attic window to the left.

The south elevation has a ground-floor door leading into a modern single-storey conservatory to the right and two ground-floor windows to the left. A first-floor door is situated to the left, accompanied by an external spiral metal staircase. A first-floor window sits to the right, and two first-floor catslide dormer windows break the eaves.

The west elevation is attached to An Cala.

The house primarily has 12-pane timber sash and case windows and a timber boarded front door. The roof is pitched slate, with crowstepped gables to the original house. An inscribed stone below the northwest skewputt reads 'ANNO 1623'. Coped gable apex stacks are present. The lower, steeper roof pitch of a former adjacent building is visible on the west gable, now largely concealed by An Cala.

The interior is single room deep. A fireplace is located on the ground floor, against the east wall. Arched openings lead to the windows on the south wall. A possible large fireplace exists in the west wall, alongside a niche to the right. A staircase is positioned to the west of the entrance door, with exposed corbelled ashlar stonework on the west side of the first floor - a former external wall. The first-floor room is taller, featuring cornicing with roses. Timber panelled shutters are fitted to the windows. A roll-moulded fireplace in the west wall was probably inserted around 1970. A narrow section at the street frontage has a tiny window. An arched alcove appears in the northwest wall, next to a window, with a recess to the left of the fireplace - possibly a former doorway leading to a neighbouring house. The turnpike stair to the north leads to the attic floor, containing a small window within the stairwell. The two attic rooms have coved ceilings.

A tall rubble stone garden wall extends southwards from the southeast gable.