Brunton Manse, High Street, Markinch

Brunton Manse, built around 1845, is a two-storey, three-bay, L-plan gabled manse located on High Street in Markinch. The exterior is constructed from squared and snecked rubble, featuring droved ashlar quoins, a deep base course, and an eaves course. The building is adorned with hoodmoulds and stone mullions.

On the west elevation, there is a projecting gabled doorcase at the center, which includes a panelled timber door and a plate glass fanlight. To the right of the doorcase is a canted window, while the left side features a former bipartite window. The first floor has a narrow bipartite window at the center, flanked by windows with hoodmoulds, each situated below gableheads that have blind round-headed slits.

The south elevation has a window on both floors to the right and a projecting full-height battered, shouldered stack with a gunloop at the apex to the left of center. There is a lower, recessed wing on the outer right, which abuts the broad stack and has a stepped roofline, along with a small lean-to outbuilding in the re-entrant angle.

On the north elevation, a full-height battered chimney breast is advanced to the right of center, with a window to the left at ground floor. A screen wall with a pedestrian gate is located beyond to the left, adjoining an outbuilding at the outer left.

The east elevation features a ground floor to the right with a courtyard wall and outbuilding, and a window to the right of center on the first floor. There is a gabled projecting wing to the left, which has two windows at ground level and another window above in the gablehead.

The rear wing has small-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows, while modern top-opening windows are found elsewhere. The roof is covered with grey slates, and the building has cavetto and flat coped ashlar stacks with some polygonal cans, as well as ashlar coped skews with flat skewputts and decorative finials.

Inside, there is a curved staircase with decorative cast-iron balusters and a timber handrail. A cast-iron fireplace is located in a small room off the stair, which may have served as a maid's room.

Adjoining the house is a single-storey rubble outbuilding with a piended slate roof, along with a screen wall that forms a small courtyard at the northeast. The boundary walls are made of semicircular-coped rubble.