Former Manse, 8 Church Road, Liff

This is a two-storey, irregularly planned former manse, built in phases beginning around 1758. A further block was added to the north-east re-entrant angle in the early 19th century, and a third to the north-west in the later 19th century. The original building and the earlier 19th-century additions are harled, with painted ashlar dressings. The north-west gable is constructed of painted stugged and snecked rubble with ashlar dressings. The roof is slate, with both piended and gabled sections.

The south elevation features a base course and a first-floor band course. The advanced gable to the south has a pedimented form, with a keystoned, blocked oculus and leaf motif, a coped skew, and a coped block finial. The north-west gable has bracketted skewputts and a ball finial. Windows are largely sash and case, with 12 panes on the north elevation and south gable, and plate glass elsewhere, set within painted ashlar margins. There are copied ridge and end stacks, constructed of brick and masonry, along with cast-iron rainwater goods.

The west elevation displays the original gable on the right, with a window to the ground floor; a later 19th-century gable is advanced to the left, featuring a bipartite and single window to the ground floor, and a bipartite window on the first floor, with a panelled door and fanlight to the right return.

The symmetrical south elevation is six bays wide. The central, advanced gable has two doorways cut down from what were previously windows on the ground floor, with two windows above. Recessed bays of the original house flank the advanced gable, each with two windows on both the ground and first floors.

The north elevation incorporates the original gable centrally, with a doorway cut down from a ground-floor window on the left, and a window to the right, along with two windows on the first floor, and a gablehead stack. An earlier 19th-century bay is located to the left, with a French window and a single window on the ground floor, and a window above. A later 19th-century bay is slightly advanced to the right, with a single window on the first floor.

An outbuilding extends from the east elevation.

The interior features an encaustic tile floor in the vestibule, a geometric staircase with decorative cast-iron balusters extending to the landing, and a border-glazed rooflight. There are some doors with fielded panelling, a keystoned, segmental-arched doorpiece with fluted jambs in a rear store room (likely re-sited), panelled shutters, moulded cornices, and coomb ceilings to some of the first-floor rooms. Chimneypieces display arrangements of naval artifacts, possibly reflecting the patronage of the Duncans of Camperdown in the early 19th century.

A single-storey and attic U-plan coach house/stable/steading, dating from 1822 and now in a ruinous condition, stands nearby. Constructed of rubble with droved and margined dressings, it features a coach house to the west, a stable with timber trevises to the north, and a byre to the east.

Coped rubble boundary walls enclose the site to the north, south, east, and west.