Old Manse, Cawdor

The Steading at Old Manse in Cawdor is a building designed by architect and builder John Wilson in 1831. It is a two-storey house with an attic, featuring a wide three-bay layout. The exterior is finished with harl pointed rubble and has tooled ashlar dressings. The southeast entrance front is symmetrical, with a slightly advanced and pedimented central bay that includes a center door flanked by narrow sidelights. There is also a symmetrical two-bay entrance on the northeast side and a large tripartite window on the ground floor of the southwest elevation. The windows have 12-pane glazing, and there are modern box dormers, with one at the front and three at the rear. The house has paired central stacks and a piended platform slate roof.

At the rear, there are two single-storey, single-bay wings that form a service court. The property includes a walled garden, which features a coped rubble wall. Additionally, there is an L-plan steading or gighouse and stable located at the rear, constructed from rubble with tooled rubble dressings and a piended slate roof. The entrance is marked by a pair of simple square ashlar gate piers topped with pyramidal caps.