Penninghame Manse, Newton Stewart

Penninghame Manse, located in Newton Stewart, is a former manse built in 1828. This two-storey building features three bays and has single-storey pavilions. It is constructed from squared and coursed whinstone with red sandstone ashlar dressings, including an eaves course and cornice.

On the east elevation, there is a central doorpiece with a broken pediment supported by ashlar columns. The round-arched doorway has a radial fanlight and two-leaf panelled doors. To the right, there is a bipartite window with an ashlar mullion, likely a late 19th-century alteration. A window is present to the left, and there are windows in each bay on the first floor. The single bay pavilions, which have piend roofs, are recessed to the outer left and right, each featuring windows. The principal block has a blank gable on the return to the right, with a window on the first floor of the return to the left.

The west elevation includes a stair window at the center, flanked by a ground floor window to the right and a piend-roofed porch projection to the left. There are two first-floor windows. The pavilions are flush with the wall plane of the principal block, with the one on the right featuring a door and window.

The building has small-pane glazing patterns in its sash and case windows, grey slate roofs, and ashlar coped skews with broad gablehead stacks, complete with a full complement of cans. There are two rooflights at the front and three at the rear, along with lead covering on the eaves cornice.

The interior was not seen in 1993. The property also features decorative two-leaf iron gates and railings on low rubble walls, along with two stone gatepiers that have moulded faces and cushion caps. There is a coach house or stable block located to the northwest at the rear.