Manse, Gamrie

The Manse in Gamrie, built between 1830 and 1831, is likely designed by William Robertson from Elgin. This two-storey house sits over a raised basement and features a three-bay layout with a later 19th century rear wing that creates an L-shape. The exterior is made of harled rubble with tooled and polished ashlar margins and dressings. It has a symmetrical front with a central entrance that includes a bracketed cornice and a panelled door, along with a deep ashlar base course and long windows on the ground floor. There is a single window on both the ground and first floors of the northwest gable, while the southeast gable has similar blocked windows and additional fenestration from the later 19th century.

At the rear, a projecting bowed stairwell rises above the wallhead, culminating in a bowed and piended roof. The rear also features a later piended dormer and a canted rear dormer from the late 19th century that matches the two-storey, two-bay rear wing. The original house has 12-pane glazing, while the later wing has 2-pane glazing. The building has coped end and wallhead stacks, with slate roofs that have projecting eaves at both the front and rear. Decorative cast-iron spearhead railings from around 1830 enclose a lightwell and provide access to the raised basement, featuring fluted stiffeners with fluted finials.

Inside, the entrance lobby leads to a stair hall, with a drawing room and dining room on either side. The interior boasts deep moulded and panelled skirting boards, beaded panelling around windows and doors, and simple ceiling cornices. However, no original chimneypieces remain in the main public rooms. A curved staircase with a simple balustrade adds to the interior's character.

Additionally, there is a steading built in 1830-31, which consists of a single-storey U-plan range that includes a byre, stables, and a gighouse. The entrance to the court is flanked by square tooled rubble gatepiers topped with flat caps, and the steading has slate roofs. A walled garden, also from 1830-31, features rubble rock walls with roughly dressed coping.