Manse Stables, 244A Church Street, Tranent

The Manse Stables, dated 1858, is a rectangular-plan, symmetrical five-bay stable range located at 244A Church Street in Tranent. It is constructed from squared and snecked, stugged rubble sandstone, featuring contrasting dressings.

On the west elevation, a gabled bay at the center is advanced and breaks the eaves, housing a hayloft. There is a depressed carriage arch with a fanlight and boarded two-leaf doors below, along with a hayloft opening above that has a dated lintel and three flight-holes at the apex. Each outer bay has a door flanking the center, with boarded doors that include small-pane fanlights, and there are narrow windows in the outer bays. Decorative wrought-iron lamp brackets are present at the northwest corner.

The east elevation features a door, a swept dormer, and a window, while the end elevations are blank. The sash and case windows have a small-pane glazing pattern, and the roof is covered with red pantiles, complemented by ashlar coped skews.

Inside, the stall divisions have been retained.

The retaining wall and gatepiers consist of stugged grey ashlar gatepiers at the drive, topped with ball finials, and flanked by rendered and lined ashlar coped walls. There are squat, pyramidally coped piers by the entrance to a small stable courtyard, along with a curved sandstone rubble wall with semi-circular coping to the west, which sweeps up to the south, forming a diminutive courtyard that shields the garden of The Manse.