Church Officer's House, Stenton

The Church Officer's House in Stenton is an earlier 18th century building that has undergone various additions and alterations over the years. It forms an L-plan group and is a two-storey cottage facing west. Originally, it consisted of several dwellings linked before 1850 to a later 18th century cottage that faces south at a right angle. By 1900, the building was extended to the north.

The exterior is constructed of red sandstone rubble with a mix of dressings, including some stugged, rounded, and chamfered arrises.

On the southeast elevation, there is a three-bay cottage on the right, featuring a corbelled forestair at the center and a lintel above the doorway beneath the stair. To the left, an opening has been enlarged to serve as a doorway, with a small window at the ground level in the outer right bay and a door under the eaves flanking the first-floor door. The left side has irregular bays in a much-altered range, with three enlarged windows at ground level (one of which was formerly a door), one door, and one small window; there are three widely spaced windows on the first floor.

The southwest elevation faces a narrow wynd and has a blank gable wall on the right. To the left, there is a lower two-storey cottage with a door that has a lintel incised "JW 1750," which appears to have been inserted later. There are also blocked square low openings to the right of center, a minimal forestair at the center, and a small window to the left above another blocked opening.

The garden elevation features a later 19th-century extension with a cat-slide roof and has seen much alteration in the 20th century. The sash and case windows on the southeast have a small-plane glazing pattern. The building is topped with pantiles and has stugged ashlar stacks.