Watch House, Parish Church Of Scotland, Petty

The Watch House, located at the Parish Church of Scotland in Petty, was built in 1839 in the style of William Robertson from Elgin. This large T-plan church features a small burial mausoleum dating from around 1686 at its eastern gable. The church is constructed of red rubble with similarly tooled ashlar dressings, while the mausoleum is harled with ashlar details.

On the south elevation of the church, there are four long, symmetrical square-headed windows with hood moulds, along with square-headed entrances in the outer bays. The west elevation of the rear T-wing has a similar window and door, with an additional window on the east side of the T-wing. The west gable of the church features considerably larger, yet similar, window lights, all of which have moulded wooden transoms and mullions with multi-pane glazing. There are small 16-pane gallery windows in the north and east gables, and similar windows light the rear of the church.

At the apex of the west gable, there is a truncated corbelled octagonal bellcote, which has partially damaged cross finials at the east and north apices. The church also has accentuated skewputts and slate roofs. The mausoleum, dating from circa 1686, is a small and low L-plan structure with a narrow three-bay front, featuring a central pointed-headed door flanked by similarly arched windows with simple Y-tracery. Inside, there is a mural monument designed as a Venetian window with blind or defaced panels, and moulded cornices on the side lights, dated 1742 and initialled LM and AD. The mausoleum has a moulded eaves cornice and a piended slate roof.

Flanking the entrance to the mausoleum are a pair of cast-iron cats bearing banners, standing on stone plinths. The church is surrounded by a walled burial ground that slopes down to the south, with coped rubble walls and a pair of square tooled rubble gate piers with square caps approached by a flight of steps, which was the former principal entrance now enclosed by a further extension of the burial ground.

The watch-house, dated 1825, is a rectangular rubble structure built against the side of the slope next to the gate piers and the former principal burial ground entrance. It has an entrance in the west gable and small margined lights in the west and south, with a decaying apex stack and a slate roof.