Manse, Pencaitland

The Manse in Pencaitland is an early 19th-century, two-storey classical building with a square plan. It is constructed from yellow sandstone squared rubble, featuring droved grey ashlar dressings and rough pointing. The eaves course is present along the roofline.

On the south elevation, there are three symmetrical bays, with the central bay projecting forward and breaking the eaves, topped with a blocking course and a tablet. The entrance features a corniced and pilastered doorpiece with a doorway set in a wide segmental arch, leading to a tripartite door adorned with a decorative fanlight. Flanking the entrance are canted windows at ground level, which intercept the advanced bay and have cornices, along with narrow 4-centred windows on the splayed sides. Above, there are regular single windows.

The east elevation has four bays, with two wide bays to the left of the centre that contain windows on both floors, although there is a blind window at the first floor in the outer bay. To the right of the centre, two bays are grouped closely together with narrow windows on each floor. The west elevation features five nearly regular bays, each with windows on both the ground and first floors, and a blind window opposite one above. The north elevation is irregular, with bays to the left of centre advanced and a door to the right.

There is a later two-storey extension to the northeast. The building predominantly features a 12-pane glazing pattern in sash and case windows, with a 4-centred pattern in the side windows of the canted bays. Shouldered wallhead stacks are located on the east and west elevations, and the roofs are covered with grey slates.

To the south of the house, there is an ashlar coped rubble terrace wall. To the west of the manse, two square ashlar gatepiers with chamfered corners, panels, and corniced caps mark the entrance. The stable court, which is currently undergoing conversion to a parish community centre as of 1988, consists of an L-plan court made up of two irregular gabled ranges situated to the northeast of the manse, connected by a common retaining wall. The northern range includes a cartshed and hayloft with a segmental carriage arch, while the eastern range contains former stables.