Manse, Bridge Street, Tarland

The Manse on Bridge Street in Tarland, built in 1846 by John and William Smith, is a two-storey, three-bay building designed in the Jacobethan style. It has a rectangular plan with an additional wing at the rear and is constructed from squared granite courses. The building features a base course, eaves course, and chamfered margins around the openings. The gable ends have coped, shouldered skews with projecting skewputts, and there are gabled dormers that break the eaves. Large rectangular windows are fitted with timber mullions and transoms.

On the south elevation, there is an advanced single-storey entrance porch at the centre, accessed by stone steps leading to a timber panelled door set within a Tudor-arched frame. The porch has chamfered corners on the returns and ends in a parapet with a central stepped pediment above the cornice. A gabled dormer breaks the eaves above the porch, and there is a tripartite window in the ground floor bay to the left. To the right, a slightly advanced gabled bay features a tripartite window on the ground floor and a bipartite window on the first floor.

The north elevation has an advanced gabled bay on the right that contains a garage at ground level and arrow slits on the upper storey. There is a slightly advanced gabled bay in the centre and another gabled bay on the left, with irregular fenestration throughout.

The east side elevation is four bays wide, with a blank side wall that has twin projecting battered wallhead stacks. The west side elevation is six bays wide, featuring a broad, double gabled bay on the right with a battered, projecting wallhead stack. The bays to the left have irregular fenestration, with a second battered wallhead stack located in the centre.

The windows throughout the building are multi-pane sash and case style, and the roof is covered with grey slates and lead flashing. The stacks are tall, coped, and chamfered.

Inside, the layout follows the typical design of an established manse, with a central lobby, a staircase at the rear, and flanking apartments, including a kitchen wing at the back. The interior features plain plasterwork dado and cornices, along with plaster pilasters in the lobby. There is also a cellar with slate slab shelving boxes.

To the southwest of the house, there is a rectangular walled garden made of squared granite courses. The boundary wall surrounding the property is a low granite rubble wall that ends in square piers topped with pyramidal caps.