Custodian's House

This is a single storey, small square plan house, built on a levelled terrace by the Office of Works between 1924 and 1926 as staff accommodation for the monument custodian. It has snecked and stugged stone rubble walls with plain ashlar quoins and a piended, swept grey slate roof with overhanging eaves. The window openings are of different sizes and are asymmetrically arranged around the building, with timber, multi-pane sash and case windows and raised stone cills.

The front (southeast facing) elevation of the house is asymmetrical, with a recessed porch on the right (east) side, supported by a rectangular-plan corner pillar, and bipartite six over six pane windows on the left (south) side. The door is in the re-entrant angle of the porch while a bronze cast bell with the inscription A.M. 1940 hangs from the corbel of the corner pillar. There are two tall and robust wallhead chimney stacks.

The interior was seen in 2016. The building has a plain interior with a largely intact early 1920s plan form, which includes two bedrooms and a sitting room.

To the northeast, there is a small, square-plan stone hut with piended slate roof, partially built into the stone rubble wall to the north in 1926 by the Office of Works as a shelter for an existing draw well. The wall and below-ground elements of the well are designated as part of the scheduled monument 'Inchcolm, Abbey, Hermit's Cell, First World War and Second World War defences (SM90166).