Old Church Manse, Glencairn Road

W J B Wright, 1930. 2-storey, roughly 5-bay, L-plan Arts and Crafts manse with Scottish Baronial features including crowstepped gables, bartizan turret and gabled dormers. Entrance to N; service wing with catslide roof to E; N-S orientated gable to W with bartizan at NW corner; gable advanced to N with flat-roofed stair block to left; entrance gable to re-entrant angle. White-painted roughcast render with brown sandstone dressings. Discontinuous eaves course. Plain sandstone window margins.

N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: studded timber-boarded front door in stop-chamfered architrave with long and short quoins; hoodmould; label stops with angel faces; tablet panel above with carved Lion Rampant; broad stone entrance step with low side wall. 1st floor of entrance gable jettied out on deep stone cornice; window above entrance; windows to left return. Stair block advanced to right with small window at ground and staircase window above; asymmetrical gable to outer right with chimney breast corbelled out on dentilled corbels from 1st floor; datestone inscribed 1930 to left of stack. Service wing recessed to left of entrance with central round arch to recessed lobby; timber-boarded garage door to left; 3 windows to right; 2 3-light strip windows under eaves at 1st floor; piended catslide roof to E return.

W (SIDE) ELEVATION: 3-bays. Stone-mullioned bipartite window at ground to left; gabled dormers breaking eaves to 1st floor; circular bartizan with 1 window to outer left.

S (GARDEN) ELEVATION: irregularly fenestrated. Gable to left with 3-light canted bay window at ground. 2-bay section to centre with gabled dormer at 1st floor; slightly lower 3-bay service wing to right; timber-boarded back door with sidelights; 2 piend-roofed dormers breaking eaves to 1st floor.

Small-pane glazing in horned timber sash and case windows; leaded light to stair with stained glass. Rendered stone-coped stacks with short clay cans. Graded grey slate; ridge tiles. INTERIOR: paved lobby; glazed inner door with bevelled glass; leaded sidelights with some stained glass. Fully panelled entrance hall; central ceiling boss with gilt Greek Cross supporting electric light. Timber dog-leg stair twist balusters; carved lion with shield bearing St Andrews Cross on newel post; stained glass to staircase window with heraldic device, St Andrews Cross and thistles. Drawing room with timber chimney piece, timber picture rail and vine-pattern plaster ceiling frieze. Timber panelled interior doors throughout with brass handles.