St Margaret's Manse, Invermark Terrace, Barnhill, Dundee

St Margaret's Manse is a two-storey and basement building with a fall of ground, constructed in 1912 by MacLaren, Sons and Soutar, in an Arts and Crafts style. It is situated on Invermark Terrace, Barnhill, Dundee, and was gifted by Mrs Christina Adamson, the widow of the first minister of St Margaret’s Church, Rev Thomas Newbigging Adamson, who served from 1884 to 1911. The church itself was established in 1884. The manse is built of bull-faced snecked rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings at ground floor level, while the first floor is harled. It features harled stone coped stacks and a slate roof.

The north elevation is three bays, with the outer bays gabled and projecting. An off-centre door, with a glazed panel, fanlight and bell-pull, is flanked by a window to the right and a small window. A bipartite window breaks the eaves on the first floor. A blind gable sits to the left, featuring a masonry chimneybreast and gablehead stacks. A lop-sided gable to the right has a tripartite transomed window at ground floor level, a single window to the left, and two bipartites on the first floor. A small window is located on the first floor return.

The south elevation has an advanced gable on the right, incorporating an open timber verandah with a facetted slate roof at ground floor level and a trellised open area. A canted transomed window is located on the ground floor, and a plate-glazed four-light window is above. An elongated wallhead stack is on the left return. To the left, a three-bay section includes a central multi-pane window, a multi-pane French door with fanlight within the verandah, and a window to the left. Three windows break the eaves on the first floor; a tripartite window to the left, and two single windows to the right.

The east elevation has two asymmetrical bays with modern tripartite windows of differing sizes at ground floor level. Bipartite and tripartite windows break the eaves on the first floor, all with plate glazing.

The west elevation contains an advanced single-storey bay on the left, with a roof that slopes downwards and partially masks a recessed gabled bay to its left. There is a single window, a bipartite window and a door to the basement at the centre, with a further door to the basement on the right.

References include Broughty Ferry Architectural Drawings Plans (ADPs) and George Watt’s “The Story of St Margaret's Church, Barnhill, Dundee 1884-1984”.