Manse, Carmyllie Parish Kirk

The Manse at Carmyllie Parish Kirk, dated 1820, is a traditional two-storey and attic, three-bay, L-plan building, likely designed by James MacLaren in 1870. It is prominently located on raised ground, overlooking glebeland and the gently sloping land to the south, with Beadle's House visible beyond Elliot Water.

The exterior features harled walls on the east gable, which is rendered with ashlar margins. It has a deep base course and an eaves course that extends to a band course at the east gable. The building displays chamfered arrises and a dividing course to the later canted window.

The symmetrical principal elevation faces south and includes steps with flanking railings leading to a six-panelled timber door topped with a plate glass fanlight under a dated lintel. To the left, a canted window breaks the eaves into a bay with decorative finials. The rear (north) elevation has a lower gabled projection that extends into a lean-to bay on the right, with a small piended bay immediately to the left and a modern conservatory beyond.

The windows are timber sash and case, featuring 4-, 12-pane, and plate glass glazing patterns. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are coped ashlar stacks, mostly polygonal, along with stepped, ashlar-coped skews and block skewputts.

Inside, the manse retains well-detailed features, including moulded cornices, six-panelled architraved doors, and panelled shutters, some with horizontal oval decoration. The classically-detailed timber fire surrounds add to the interior's character. The vestibule has a decoratively tiled floor and a part-glazed screen door with flanking lights. The stairhall features a curved cantilevered staircase with plain ironwork balusters. The former dining room showcases a decoratively consoled sideboard arch and flanking doors.

To the north, there are ancillary buildings, including a gabled, rectangular-plan structure and a small mono-pitch building adjoining the wall, both covered with slate and made of rubble.

The property includes bee-boles, which are framed in ashlar and feature a row of three bell-boles with an ironwork guard inserted into the wall on the east side. The garden walls and boundary walls are made of random rubble and are coped. A pedestrian gate with a carved datestone reading '1836' is located on the east side, and there is a curved ha-ha to the south that leads to the glebeland at the garden perimeter.