Old Manse, Cairnryan

The Old Manse is a late 18th century, two-story, L-plan former manse located in Cairnryan, with an attached ancillary structure. It is constructed of painted rubble, with contrasting painted cills.

The south-west elevation, which is the entrance front, features an advanced, central gabled porch. The porch has a timber door, moulded skewputts, and a ball finial atop the gable. A small circular window sits to the right of the porch, and a single window is directly above it on the first floor. Regular sash windows are arranged in the flanking outer bays. The north-west elevation displays single windows at ground and first floor on the left side of the main gable. A lean-to entrance porch is advanced on the north-west/rear elevation, with a timber door and a bipartite and single square window on the ground floor section to the left. A single window on the first floor breaks the eaves with a segmental head, and another single window sits on the first floor to the outer left of the main house. The south-east elevation has a blank gable to the main section, and two small square windows to a lower-height section to the right. A two-leaf opening provides access to the ancillary structure, which includes a lean-to.

The windows are predominantly timber sash and case, with 4-, 6- and 12-pane glazing. The roof is covered in grey slate, with re-slating to the rear, and includes rooflights, stone skews, moulded skewputts, coped gablehead stacks, and polygonal cans.

The interior was not inspected in 1999.

An attached, single-story, rectangular-plan ancillary structure is located to the north, along with an attached lower-height lean-to. Square-plan gatepiers with ball finials mark the entrance; other gatepiers to the right lead to Lochryan House, which is listed separately. A rubble boundary wall encloses the site and features deeply splayed coping to the north-east section.

The Old Manse is distinguished from other late 18th century rural buildings by its ball-finialled gabled entrance porch and its rosette-moulded skewputts. Other notable features include the ball-finialled gatepiers and the rubble boundary wall. The property was subdivided into two flats in 1996. The building is visible on J Ainslie’s Map of Wigton from 1782 and is mentioned in Sir AN Agnew's "Wigtownshire: Illustrated Guide for Visitors" (1928) and John Gifford’s "Dumfries and Galloway" (1996).