Glenshiel Manse

The Glenshiel Manse is a house dating from 1833/34, with repairs and alterations carried out in 1865 by Alexander Ross. It is a two-storey, three-bay house built over a raised basement. The exterior is harled with tooled margins. The central bay is slightly advanced and features a pediment on the southeast front, which incorporates a secondary entrance to the basement and later-inserted bipartite windows to both the ground and first floors. A central entrance is located on the northwest elevation, approached by shallow steps with a cast-iron handrail. The windows are a mix of eight-pane and sixteen-pane glazing, and the roof is covered with slate, featuring twin ridge stacks.

A steading, dating from 1825, is located nearby. It has a shallow V-plan, incorporating a stable, two cart-sheds, and byres in the southern arm, and a five-bay hay and threshing barn to the north, with its long elevations oriented east to west. The central threshing doors are flanked by paired louvred vents, with a similar vent to the north gable. The threshing floor has divided winnowing doors, and unusually, tie-beams were omitted above the threshing floor to allow space for the swing of a flail. The 1865 alterations to the house appear to have moved the entrance to what was formerly the rear. The earlier manse was destroyed by fire in 1833. Newspaper references and the New Statistical Account provide further details.