West Cottage, Nether Tullicro

West Cottage, located at Nether Tullicro, is probably an 18th-century vernacular cottage that is a rare example of an early single-storey, three-bay, rectangular-plan structure. It retains its thatched roof covered with corrugated iron and features five pairs of cruck couples. The cottage is accompanied by a barn and a bothy, both of which are also single-storey and rectangular in shape. The exterior is made of random rubble with small openings, and the cottage has been whitewashed.

The symmetrical entrance is on the southeast elevation, featuring a boarded timber door at the center and windows in widely spaced bays on either side. The gable ends are blank, and the rear has two timber-lintelled windows that have been enlarged with brick. The windows on the cottage have a four-pane glazing pattern in timber sash and case style, while the rear windows have a multi-pane glazing pattern in timber casement style. The chimneystacks are made of ashlar with slate cornices, and some timber bargeboarding is present.

Inside, the walls are lined with timber boarding, revealing the crucks at the wallhead. The walls, ceiling, and exposed parts of the crucks still have early wallpaper coverings. Cabers are in place supporting the thatch beneath the corrugated iron. Timber partitions create two small rooms at the center, with larger outer rooms serving as a kitchen on the west side featuring a large fireplace opening that incorporates parts of a range with a swey and timber surround, and a living room on the east side with a large stone fireplace and a bracketed timber mantel shelf.

The barn is a long, slated rubble structure with a gabled roof, situated on ground that falls to the south. It has a broad timber-boarded door below a small cast iron rooflight on the entrance elevation at the west, a hayloft opening at the north, and a tiny center window with two small cast iron rooflights on the east. The south gable is partially collapsed.

The bothy has been converted into a dwelling around the year 2000. It features a boarded timber door flanked by non-traditional fixed light windows, and it has a replacement straw-thatch roof with a concrete ridge and skews.