Valleyfield Endowment, Low Causeway, Culross

Valleyfield Endowment is an 1830 single-storey institutional building located on Low Causeway in Culross. It features six bays with a mix of classical and gothic architectural details and has been converted into a house. The central two bays are slightly advanced and topped with a pediment. The building has an advanced base course, vertical margins, an eaves course, an eaves cornice, and margins around the windows and doors, which are adorned with hoodmoulds. The principal elevation is finished in droved ashlar block, while the rear is constructed from rubble.

On the southeast, or principal elevation, the symmetrical design showcases the central two bays that are slightly advanced, featuring two bipartite windows. The corniced pediment includes a carved Preston armorial panel in the tympanum, dated 1830, and is topped with a Maltese cross finial. There are flanking doors with four-pane fanlights and a bipartite window in the outer bay. Steps lead up to the doors, and there is a small bay set back to the far right with a central window.

The southwest elevation presents a plain gable wall. The northwest elevation has four windows positioned in the center and to the right, each with hoodmoulds, and a plain, smaller window to the right. There is a door to the left and another door leading to a later bay at the far left. The northeast elevation features a plain wall with a small wing that is advanced to the center right.

The building includes replacement lattice glazing, chamfered stone mullions and transoms, and chamfered margins. The large timber doors have raised panels. The roof is pitched and covered with slate, featuring corniced gable apex stacks and a central ridge stack, along with polygonal clay cans.

The interior was modernized around 1980, revealing exposed stone on the west gable wall.

The boundary walls consist of a tall rubble wall at the rear that curves and continues to the north as a retaining wall with a bank beyond. A tall rubble sandstone wall runs along the roadside, terminating in square-plan ashlar piers topped with corniced coping stones. An out-house is attached to the east, and there is a low wall in front of The Endowment, complemented by metal railings and a central gate.