St Mungo's Manse, 35 High Street, Penicuik

This is an early 19th century, two-storey and attic house with a single-storey pavilion court and wing, originally built as the parish manse for Penicuik, and now used as a residential home. The principal facade is of rendered and painted rubble, while the rear is of rubble. The house features projecting cills, raised margins, and ashlar dressings, some of which are broached. The principal elevation has long and short quoins, while the rear has strip quoins.

The northwest (principal) elevation has regularly spaced windows on the ground and first floors, with a wider window in the centre where the original doorway was located. A later single-storey entrance porch sits in the re-entrant angle to the right, featuring a 9-panel flush timber door with decorative raised margins and pilasters, and a window within a chamfered bay. The northeast elevation has a window to the right of centre and to the outer left at ground level, with an attic window centred in the gable. The southeast (rear) elevation has a later, out-of-character lean-to conservatory at ground level, centred, with a stair window above. Other rear windows include a window to the right at ground level, a bipartite window to the left at ground level, and windows in the outer bays at the first floor. The southwest elevation is partially obscured by a single-storey wing.

The southwest wing projects from the main house and has four narrow windows facing southeast, a bipartite window with modern cladding on the outer left, and a pair of irregularly arranged windows in the southwest gable. The northwest elevation of the wing has a modern timber door. The interior was not inspected in 1999.

A pair of single-storey, rectangular, piended classical pavilions, symmetrically arranged, frame a service court to the south. These pavilions feature droved long and short quoins and round-arched alcoved niches with projecting cills centred in their blank walls facing the street. They are linked by a screen wall with advanced gatepiers and a two-leaf, vertically-boarded timber gate in a wide central gateway. The west pavilion has a modern entrance to the courtyard, a vertically-boarded timber door, and vertically-boarded garage doors with glazed upper panels. The east pavilion has a pair of windows facing northeast and a modern glazed door with three windows to the courtyard.

The majority of windows are 12-pane timber sash and case. The roofs are grey slate with lead ridges, and include a rectangular piended dormer and a modern skylight at the rear. There is a decorative timber snowboard centred at the rear. Gablehead stacks have coped details and octagonal cans, while the east pavilion block has a shouldered wallhead stack. Coped skews are also present.

Low coped ashlar boundary walls run along the street; the original railings are missing. To the rear, tooled and squared rubble walls have semicircular coping. Bee bole recesses are located in the garden wall.