Walled Garden, Clatt Parish Manse, Kirktown Of Clatt

The building is a house, probably dating to a reconstruction around 1820, with possible elements from an earlier manse built in 1725. Alterations and additions around 1840-60 introduced Tudorbethan detailing to the porch and gableheads.

The south-facing house is two storeys and an attic, with a symmetrical three-bay design. A projecting central porch provides the entrance, flanked by single windows, with three windows at the first floor level. A central coped wallhead gablet sits above the roofline, incorporating ledged skewputts and a blind slit opening in the gablehead, topped with a ball finial. The pitched slate roof features a pair of piend-roofed dormer windows with console detail at the timber window frames, stone skews, and a pair of end stacks. The windows are four-pane sash and case, set within a harled facade with exposed droved and chamfered ashlar dressings and margins. An ashlar base course and parapet, featuring a blind central inscription tablet (the parapet was reharled during a 1991 restoration), complete the exterior.

The east gable features two windows at ground level and one to the left at the first floor. The west gable displays symmetrically paired windows close together at the centre of both the ground and first floors.

The interior retains a mid-19th-century staircase with cast-iron balusters.

A single-storey and attic block extends north at a right angle, forming an L-plan, with a rear wing. The wing is harled with exposed margins and a pitched slate roof, topped by an axial stack.

The west elevation of the rear wing has a wallhead gable to the right, with an attic opening featuring original timber-louvred shuttering. Two windows are at ground level to the right, with a twelve-pane sash and case window in the centre and a larger eight-pane window to the narrow right-hand side.

The east (entrance) elevation mirrors the west, with doors to the left and a central door on the gabled right-hand bay.

The north elevation features a twelve-pane sash and case window to the right at ground level and a pair of openings with timber-louvred shuttering in the attic. A rectangular walled garden is located to the west, constructed from granite rubble. The western gateway incorporates a bolection-moulded lintel and a pair of dated skewputts from 1725, presumably salvaged from the earlier manse during the 19th-century reconstruction.

The building was restored in 1991 with reharling work. Historic records indicate the manse was initially built in 1725, with repairs and additional accommodation added in 1820.