Steading, Parish Manse, Old Aberdour

The Steading at the Parish Manse in Old Aberdour is a house built between 1821 and 1823 by Alexander Laing, who modified earlier plans by William Robertson from around 1814 to 1815. This two-storey and attic house features three bays, with later wings set back at the east and west gables. The exterior is harled with contrasting painted tooled ashlar margins. The central entrance is flanked by a regular arrangement of windows, which includes late 19th-century canted dormers in the outer bays.

To the east, there is a slightly later two-storey wing and a single-storey wing that projects to the rear, forming an L-plan. A modern single-storey, three-bay flat-roofed wing is set back at the west gable. The rear elevation is regular, featuring a central bowed projecting stairwell that rises above the wallhead, culminating in a bowed and piended slate roof. The stair-tower includes a long stair window and a small upper-storey light. The glazing consists of four- and twelve-pane windows, and there are coped end stacks with slate roofs.

Inside, the fittings include a staircase with a simple balustrade, beaded panelled window shutters in the ground floor front rooms, and a black marble chimneypiece, which may be simulated marble over slate, located in the former dining room on the ground floor to the west.

The steading is a simple single-storey L-plan structure that includes a barn, stable, byre, and former gighouse, all in poor condition. It is constructed of harl pointed rubble with tooled rubble dressings and has a slate roof. The garden walls are made of coped rubble and enclose the garden and the rear of the house, with some sections dating from 1823 and others being later additions.