1 Manse Road With Stables And Gatepiers, Kirkliston Village

Brown and Wardrop, 1865. 2-storey, asymmetrical, gabled former manse. Rambling-plan. Stugged, squared and snecked sandstone, stugged and squared quoins and margins; chamfered reveals. Base course. Recessed margined plaques in gableheads and dormerheads.

W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: asymmetrical, varied eaves lines to single and 2-storeyed bays. Gabled porch projecting at centre; door with shouldered arch surround on N return; boarded door with cast iron hinges. Stop- chamfered arrises to porch. Window in gable. Recessed to left is single storey and attic block, window at ground, bargeboarded dormer above. Advanced single storey gable further to N; window at centre. Lower gabled wing projects to N, blank wall to W. Coped wall abuts onto gable of wing to enclose kitchen yard. 2 gabled bays to S, blank gable walls.

E (GARDEN) ELEVATION: 2-bay principal block with canted bay window at ground floor left. Rectangular projecting tripartite window to ground right with stop-chamfered stone mullions, parapet and terminal ball finials. 2 dormerheaded windows with fleur-de-lis finials, flanking canted window at 1st floor. Bipartite windows above broad rectangular projection with ball finial. Lower recessed block to right; 3 windows at ground; window at centre at 1st floor, breaking eaves in chimneyhead gable. Dormerhead in corner left bay.

S ELEVATION: 2-bay; gabled bay to right slightly advanced. Windows at ground floor, dormerhead to left at 1st floor, window to right.

8-pane glazing pattern in sash and case windows, 6-pane for ground S elevation, horizontal glazing bars in square bay window. Grey slate roof, tall chamfered end stacks with moulded coping on pedestal bases. Saw-tooth skews, gabletted skewputts.

GIG HOUSE AND STABLE: single-storey, gabled L-plan gig- house and stable block adjoined to house at NE. Stugged, squared and snecked rubble, dressed quoins and margins.

W (COURTYARD) ELEVATION: boarded 2-leaf door at centre with windows flanking.

N (COURTYARD) ELEVATION: 2-leaf door at centre; slate- hung, piend-roofed, hay-loft dormer above.

8-pane glazing pattern in sash and case windows. Rendered ridge stack, ashlar coping to gables.

GATEPIERS & BOUNDARY WALL: battered piers with stop- chamfered arrises; pyramidal top. (Pair at N and S entrance). Rubble wall with semi-circular coping.