Geddes School, Parley Hill, Culross

Geddes School, located on Parley Hill in Culross, dates from around 1800 and is a two-storey, three-bay L-plan building that has been converted into flats. It is constructed from tooled sandstone rubble, featuring droved ashlar margins and quoins, with an eaves course.

The south elevation is symmetrical, showcasing a central two-leaf door with a narrow fanlight above, flanked by bipartite windows. Above the door, there is a centrally placed first-floor window, with additional bipartite windows on either side. The first-floor windows are positioned close to the eaves. An inscribed stone tablet above the door commemorates Patrick Geddes, erected in 1824 by his trustees.

The west elevation presents a plain gable wall. The north elevation features a forestair that provides access to a ground floor opening on the right, with stone steps and barley sugar iron balusters. There is a door to the right and a window to the left beneath the forestair. The rear elevation of the east wing is set back to the left, with a door on the far left, two windows to the right of the door, and a central blocked door or window. There are also two first-floor windows and a first-floor door to the right in the right return.

The east elevation is a plain gable wall, with a modern window to the left in the rear wing. The building predominantly features 12-pane timber sash and case windows, with replacement timber doors. The roofs are pitched and covered with slate, featuring raised smooth skews and coped gable apex stacks for both the main house and the rear wing.

The interior was not seen, but access to the upper flat is gained via the rear forestair.

Surrounding the property are sandstone garden walls with curved coping stones that extend from the east to the rear and front, forming a boundary with the adjacent Culross Abbey Church graveyard. The walls terminate in a pier with a bell-shaped coping stone. There is a low stone wall with chamfered coping stones at the front, featuring a central opening. A doorway with a stone lintel extends westwards from the southwest quoin. The garden walls at the rear include stone steps leading up to the garden.