1 Manse Road With Stables And Gatepiers, Kirkliston Village

This is a two-storey, asymmetrical, gabled former manse and associated stables, built in 1865 by Brown and Wardrop. It occupies a rambling plan and is situated in Kirkliston Village.

The manse is constructed from stugged, squared, and snecked sandstone with stugged and squared quoins and margins, featuring a chamfered reveal. A base course runs along the building, and recessed margined plaques are found in the gableheads and dormerheads.

The west-facing (entrance) elevation is asymmetrical, displaying varied eaves lines across single and two-storey bays. A gabled porch projects centrally, featuring a door with a shouldered arch surround on its north return, and a boarded door with cast iron hinges. The porch arrises are stop-chamfered. A window is located within the gable above the porch. To the left is a single-storey and attic block with a window at ground level and a bargeboarded dormer above. An advanced single-storey gable is further north, featuring a window at its centre. A lower gabled wing projects to the north; its west-facing wall is blank. A coped wall abuts the gable of this wing to enclose a kitchen yard. Two gabled bays are positioned to the south, with blank gable walls.

The east-facing (garden) elevation features a two-bay principal block with a canted bay window at ground floor level on the left. A rectangular projecting tripartite window sits to the ground floor right, boasting stop-chamfered stone mullions, a parapet, and terminal ball finials. Two dormerheaded windows with fleur-de-lis finials flank the canted window on the first floor. Bipartite windows are positioned above a broad rectangular projection featuring a ball finial. A lower recessed block is located to the right; this has three windows on the ground floor and a single window at first floor level, which breaks through the eaves within a chimneyhead gable. A dormerhead is situated in the corner of the left bay.

The south elevation consists of two bays, with a gabled bay to the right slightly advanced. Windows are present on the ground floor, and a dormerhead sits to the left at first floor level, with a window to the right.

The windows are primarily sash and case with an 8-pane glazing pattern, with a 6-pane pattern on the ground floor south elevation. The square bay window has horizontal glazing bars. The roof is covered in grey slate, and tall chamfered end stacks have moulded coping on pedestal bases. The roof also features saw-tooth skews and gabletted skewputts.

Adjoining the manse to the northeast is a single-storey, gabled L-plan gig house and stable block. It is built from stugged, squared, and snecked rubble with dressed quoins and margins. The west-facing courtyard elevation of the stable block has a boarded two-leaf door flanked by windows. The north-facing courtyard elevation features a two-leaf door centreed with a slate-hung, piend-roofed hay-loft dormer above.

The gatepiers are battered with stop-chamfered arrises and pyramidal tops. They are present at both the north and south entrances. A rubble boundary wall with semi-circular coping runs alongside.