Free Church Manse, Shore Road, Shandon

The Free Church Manse, located on Shore Road in Shandon, dates from around 1844 with later additions from the 19th century. This two-storey building features an asymmetrical gabled design and served as the manse for the adjacent former Free Church. It is constructed of whinstone with sandstone ashlar margins and dressings, and includes chamfered reveals, a base course, a cill course, quoin strips, and decorative bargeboards.

On the west elevation, the main block has three bays, with two bays to the left and a slightly advanced broad bay to the right. There is a gabled ashlar porch in the re-entrant angle and a single-storey block as the fourth bay on the outer right. The segmental-headed doorway has a two-pane fanlight above a two-leaf door, complete with a hoodmould and bargeboard. To the left at ground level, there is a sandstone tripartite bay window, with a bipartite window above and a gable over it. A single window is located to the right. The broad gable on the outer right features a canted bay at ground level, a blocking course, and a tripartite window on the first floor with a stepped hoodmould and label-stops. The single-storey block to the right has a tripartite window with a timber gable above.

The east elevation shows a later 19th-century single-storey addition extending east at the outer right, forming a kitchen court. An off-centre stair window to the right has etched glass with a coloured border, alongside a door and window at ground level and another window on the first floor at the outer right. There is a three-bay scullery with a door and two windows to the right, and a blocked door on the outer right.

The north elevation is partially harled and consists of two bays with symmetrically disposed windows. The south elevation features two gabletted, symmetrical bays of a single-storey block, with the taller main block behind it showcasing three symmetrical gabled bays.

The windows throughout are plate glass sash and case. The roof is gabled and covered with grey slate, featuring coped sandstone ridge stacks with octagonal cans.

The property includes slender cast-iron gatepiers with pyramidal caps, painted black and gold, along with decorative cast-iron gates that feature arcading and motifs of crosses and stars.