Strathesk Manse, 45 Polton Road, Lasswade

Earlier 19th century with later additions. 2-storey, symmetrical 3-bay plain classical house with single storey L-plan wing clasping NE angle. Stugged ashlar sandstone with polished and droved ashlar dressings. Base course; band course between ground and first floor; eaves course; channelled quoins to angles and quoin strips to centre bay; raised margins to windows.

NW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: advanced, full-height central bay; advanced corniced doorpiece with Doric columns; deep-set timber panelled door with 2-pane fanlight; window at 1st floor above. Single windows at each floor in flanking bays. Ashlar coped screen wall recessed to outer left with single window.

SE (REAR) ELEVATION: irregular, 3-bay. Later brick lean-to porch at ground in bay to centre; stair window above. Non-aligned windows at ground and 1st floor in bay to right. 2 irregularly disposed windows at ground in bay to left; window at 1st floor above. Single storey wing advanced to outer right: 2 boarded doors with letterbox fanlights above in bay to centre; window in bay to right; boarded door with flanking window in left return.

NE (SIDE) ELEVATION: blank wall with gablehead stack above single storey, 5-bay wing: bays grouped 2-2-1; pair of boarded doors to right; single window to outer right; pair of windows to left; wallhead stack to outer left.

12-pane timber sash and case windows to principal and rear elevations. Variety of glazing patterns to other elevations. Grey slate roof; skylights to SE; ashlar coped gablehead stacks to NE and SW; ashlar coped skews; cast-iron rainwater goods. Detached modern, harled garage with corrugated pitched roof to NW.

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: sandstone rubble with rounded ashlar cope. Square-plan gatepiers with squared ashlar copes.