Carrington Hill, Manse Road, Carrington

Carrington Hill is a former manse built in 1756, a 2-storey building with attic accommodation overlooking Carrington village. It is constructed of harled sandstone rubble with polished dressings, long and short quoins, and chamfered reveals to the windows. The building underwent thorough repairs in 1790 and further alterations and additions in 1850 by Thomas Brown of Uphall, who also worked on Carrington Kirk.

The principal north-east elevation is asymmetrical with 4 bays. An advanced gabled bay to the outer left contains a centred window to both ground and first floors. A window lights the ground floor of the right return. A flat-roofed single-storey porch of 1836 occupies the re-entrant angle to the right, featuring a window to its centre and a polished sandstone architraved doorway with panelled timber door opening to the right return. Windows to recessed bays and regular fenestration complete this elevation.

The north-west elevation is symmetrical with 2 gabled bays and regular fenestration to ground and first floors. The south-west elevation is asymmetrical with 5 bays, featuring an advanced gabled penultimate bay to the right, a single-storey flat-roofed addition with central window, and irregular fenestration to bays to the left. A coped rubble wall with doorway is advanced between bays. A 20th-century glazed lean-to porch has been added to the ground floor, with a bipartite dormer in the roof above.

The south-east elevation is asymmetrical with 4 bays, including 2 gabled bays to the left with regular fenestration to the first floor and a 4-pane window off-centre to the gablehead. Small-pane replacement windows occupy the penultimate bay to the right.

Windows are predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case with metal-framed exterior secondary glazing. The roof is grey slate with lead ridge, coped stone skews, and circular-canned chimney stacks—shouldered and coped to the south-east elevation, coped gableheads to the remainder. Cast-iron rainwater goods complete the exterior.

Interior features include original cornices and skirting boards predominantly in place.

Ancillary structures include a single-storey building to the south, built into the angle of a walled garden, constructed of random sandstone rubble with small-pane windows and graded grey slate roof. A pink sandstone rubble garage adjoins to the south-east with droved dressings and brick, timber and harled additions. Former offices to the west are single-storey and attic, of random rubble with replacement small-pane windows. The roof is graded grey slate, originally thatched, with lead ridge and coped stone skews.

A random rubble walled garden adjoins the house and ancillary building to the south-east. Iron gates to east and west are flanked by polished sandstone gatepiers. The western gatepiers are square and coped; the eastern gatepiers are coped with chamfered angles and pyramidal caps. Tooled random rubble boundary walls feature semicircular coping, with a brick-lined wall to the west.

Carrington Hill remains a well-proportioned building retaining much of its original character.