Parleyhill House, Culross

Parleyhill House in Culross is a building that possibly dates back to 1650, featuring a single-storey east wing. The main part of the house was constructed in 1724 and is a two-storey structure with an attic, designed in a rectangular plan with three bays. The exterior showcases a decorative doorpiece and curvilinear gables, with a rendered finish, an ashlar band, and a cavetto eaves course. The windows and quoins are framed with ashlar surrounds.

On the south elevation, there is a central door with a corniced, moulded, lugged architrave supported by scrolled brackets. This is flanked by windows, with three additional first-floor windows centered above. To the right, there is a single-storey wing featuring a window on the left and a door on the right, which has a raised surround, along with a tiny window to the right of the door. A skewputt on the west side is carved with a shield and is dated '1724'.

The west elevation includes a ground floor window to the right, with a first-floor window centered above that has a splayed surround. There are also two horizontal oval attic windows. The north elevation features a first-floor window to the left with splayed surrounds, a smaller first-floor window to the right, and a small central ground floor window. To the left is the single-storey wing, which has a window on the right and another window on the left that was inserted around 1994. There is also a modern extension, added around 1994, on the far left with a window and door in the right return. The east elevation is plain.

The house predominantly has 12-pane timber sash and case windows, with a slight chamfer on the surrounds of the principal elevation windows. The entrance features a timber panelled door. The pitched roof is covered with clay pantiles and has a slate easing course. The decorative curvilinear gables of the two-storey house are complemented by scroll skewputts, with coped gable apex stacks and circular clay cans. The single-storey wing has a gable apex stack with a polygonal clay can.

Inside, the house has been modernized in the later 20th century.

The boundary walls consist of tall rubble sandstone with ashlar coping stones and gatepiers on the west side. The south wall gently slopes down and curves eastward towards Geddes House, while the north wall follows the road towards West Lodge.