Gate And Gate Piers, Manse, 16 Cramond Glebe Road, Cramond, Edinburgh

The Manse, located at 16 Cramond Glebe Road, Cramond, Edinburgh, is a substantial house with a complex history dating back to 1745. It was extended around 1770 and subsequently altered and improved by William Burn in 1828, David Bryce in 1857, and John Watherston in 1890.

Originally a two-storey house with a basement and three bays at the centre, it featured a piended roof and a pair of arched stacks. A taller two-storey and basement wing with an attic and three bays was added to the rear around 1770, forming a T-plan layout. In 1857, a single-storey parallel wing and a porch were added to the south front. The house is constructed of random cream rubble sandstone with tooled quoins and long and short surrounds to the openings. The windows are chamfered and have raised, polished sandstone dressings. A single-storey, U-plan former stable block is located to the northeast, built from harl-pointed random rubble sandstone with droved rubble quoins and surrounds.

The west-facing entrance elevation features stone steps leading to a timber panelled door within a pedimented porch, offset to the right of centre. Single windows are located at basement and ground floor level in the bay to the left, and a bipartite window sits at the first floor. A flat-roofed link connects the entry bay to the right, containing a single window at ground floor, followed by a single window in the outer right bay. A recessed stone panel is centred in the apex. The south-facing side elevation has a stone-mullioned tripartite window in the bay to the far left and a single window to the far right, with a recessed polished sandstone panel centrally positioned beneath the apex. The north-facing elevation is largely blind, with single attic windows in the outer bays and a single-storey lean-to addition to the left for storage. The rear (east) elevation was not visible during a 1996 survey.

The windows are predominantly timber sash and case, with 15 panes in the bay to the outer right and 12 panes in the others. The roof is covered in graded grey slate, with raised stone skews and a piended dormer. A coped sandstone apex stack is present on the north side, topped with octagonal cans, while the south side has a corniced ridge stack with circular cans. Two painted render coped ridge stacks, linked by an arch, are centrally positioned on the south side, also with octagonal cans.

The interior was not inspected in 1996.

The former stable block to the south features a boarded timber door off-centre on the east wing, with a large oculus beneath the apex. A garage door is centrally located on the west wing, also with an oculus above. Boarded timber doors provide access to the courtyard. The stable block has a graded grey slate roof with raised stone skews.

A random rubble grey sandstone boundary wall with round-arched coping runs along Cramond Glebe Road. Polished ashlar gatepiers, cornices, and pyramidal caps flank the entrance, and wrought-iron gates complete the setting of the house.