Forglen Manse

Forglen Manse is a former manse built in the mid to later 18th century, with alterations made in 1792 and a drawing room wing added in 1828. The building is two stories with an attic and features three bays, along with single-storey pavilions connected by screen walls. A later addition at the south forms a T-plan, and the main entrance has been re-oriented to the south in recent times. The exterior is harled, with Turriff sandstone margins.

On the south elevation, which was formerly the rear, there is a two-bay, piend-roofed wing that is at right angles to the main house and occupies the central bay. The entrance is on the east return, featuring a door with a multi-pane strip fanlight. There is a window on the ground floor to the left and two windows on the first floor. The main house has a window on each floor, and the wing has a window on each floor of its south elevation. Additionally, there is a door leading to a shallow early 20th-century piended conservatory in the southwest re-entrant angle, along with a window on the first floor. A stair window is located on the west return of the wing.

The north elevation, which was formerly the front, has three bays. The central door has been replaced by a modern window, and there is a harled lean-to addition with windows in the outer bays. There are three windows on the first floor. On each side, there are advanced single-storey, piend-roofed pavilions linked by a corridor.

The east pavilion features a window on each elevation, while the west pavilion, which was formerly a carriage house, is now used for garaging and has a segmental arch in the center, a door to the left, and modern cladding to the right.

On the east elevation, the pavilions are adjoining at ground level, with a window to the left on both the ground and first floors, and two small windows in the attic. The west elevation has the pavilion adjoining at ground level, with a window to the right and a small window in the attic.

The building has sash and case windows with a 12-pane glazing pattern, grey slate roofing, ashlar coped skews, and bracketed skewputts, with the southeast skewputt dated 1796. The coped ashlar stacks feature thackstanes.

There are single-storey gabled outbuildings in the garden to the north, which were formerly a barn, byre, and stables, constructed of rubble with sandstone dressings. Additionally, there is a walled garden to the east, approximately measuring m x m, made of random rubble with ashlar coping.