The Old Manse, Kirk Wynd, Markinch

The Old Manse is a two-storey, three-bay manse dating from 1901-2, designed by James Gillespie & Scott for St Drostan's Parish Church. The building is constructed of stugged, squared rubble with polished ashlar margins.

The principal south elevation features three steps leading to a panelled and part-glazed timber front door, set within a roll-moulded, keystoned round-arched doorway with a small-pane semicircular fanlight above. A bipartite window sits above the door at first floor level. A corniced, canted four-light window is positioned to the right, with a battered apron below. To the left of centre is an advanced crowstepped gable, featuring a corniced tripartite window below a bipartite window at first floor, and a small window in the gablehead.

The east elevation is two bays wide, with a broad crowstepped gable incorporating a gablehead stack to the left. A small window at first floor and another in the gablehead are present. A corniced tripartite window is situated in the bay to the right, with a window above featuring a semicircular windowhead breaking the eaves.

The north elevation has a crowstepped M-gable with broad gablehead stacks and a small, flat-roofed link at the centre. A large, piend-roofed outbuilding adjoins the north-west corner. Windows are present on both floors at the centre, and the gable to the right is blank above the outbuilding's roof. The left gable has a small, projecting pitch-roofed outbuilding at ground level, with an upper window to the outer right.

The west elevation includes a crowstepped gable with a gablehead stack off-centre to the right, with a ground-floor window to the left and a round-headed stair window above. The gablehead also includes a small window to the right. A window in the bay to the left is present at both ground and first floor levels, with a pedimented windowhead breaking the eaves.

The windows throughout are timber sash and case, with a 16-pane glazing pattern in the upper sashes over 2-pane or plate glass lower sashes. The stair window features coloured glass at the head. Grey slates cover the roof, complemented by coped ashlar stacks, some featuring cans. The coped skews have beak skewputts, and the rainwater hoppers are cast iron with decorative detailing.

Interior features include carved timber fire surrounds in the principal ground-floor rooms, with the western fireplace incorporating inset Delft tiles. Brass sash lifts and plain cornicing are also present.

A piend-roofed, single-storey rubble outbuilding with slated and finialled roof is located adjacent. It features ashlar dressings, chamfered arrises and a north elevation with a boarded timber door including a plate glass fanlight, as well as two windows to the left. Additional windows are found on the east, west, and south elevations; all are timber sash and case with a small-pane upper sash over a two-pane lower sash.

The site is enclosed by semicircular-coped rubble boundary walls. Gablet-coped ashlar gatepiers mark the front and rear entrances, alongside cast-iron gates.