Geddes School, Parley Hill, Culross

Circa 1800. 2-storey, 3-bay L-plan former school (now converted to flats). Tooled sandstone rubble. Droved ashlar margins; droved quoins. Eaves course.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical elevation. Central 2-leaf door; narrow fanlight above; flanking bipartite windows. 1st floor window centred above door; flanking bipartite windows. 1st floor windows hug eaves. Inscribed stone tablet above door erected in remembrance of Patrick Geddes in 1824 by his trustees.

W ELEVATION: plain gable wall.

N ELEVATION: forestair blocks ground floor opening to right. Stone steps; barley sugar iron balusters. Door to right and window to left under forestair. Rear elevation of E wing advanced to left; door to far left; 2 windows to right of door; central blocked door/window. 2 1st floor windows. 1st floor door to right in right return.

E ELEVATION: plain E gable wall. Modern window to left in rear wing.

Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Replacement timber doors. Pitched roofs; slate. Raised smooth skews. Coped gable apex stacks to house and rear wing.

INTERIOR: not seen. Access to upper flat gained by rear forestair.

GARDEN WALLS

Sandstone wall; curved coping stones extends from E to rear and front forming boundary with adjacent Culross Abbey Church graveyard. Terminating in pier with bell-shaped coping stone. Low stone wall; chamfered coping stones to front; central opening. Doorway with stone lintel extends westwards from SW quoin. Garden walls to rear; stone steps lead up to garden.