Garage, Carrington Hill, Manse Road, Carrington

Carrington Hill is a 2-storey building with attic, built in 1756 as a manse and later substantially altered and extended. It sits prominently overlooking Carrington village on Manse Road.

The building is constructed of harled sandstone rubble with polished dressings, long and short quoins, and chamfered reveals to windows. The principal north-east elevation is asymmetrical and comprises 4 bays. A gabled bay projects to the outer left with a centred window to both ground and first floors. The right return has a ground-floor window. A flat-roofed single-storey porch of 1836 sits in the re-entrant angle to the right, featuring a polished sandstone architraved doorway with panelled timber door on its right return and a centred window. The remaining ground floor has windows to the recessed penultimate bay to the right and the outer right bay, with regular fenestration to the first floor of the remaining bays.

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

The south-east elevation is asymmetrical with 4 bays. The penultimate bay to the right and outer right bay have replacement small-pane windows at ground level. The penultimate bay to the left and outer left bay are gabled, with a ground-floor window to the penultimate bay and a glazed door to the outer left bay. Regular fenestration to the first floor includes a 4-pane window off-centre to the left of the gablehead.

The building features predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows with metal-framed exterior secondary glazing. The roof is grey slate with a lead ridge, coped stone skews, a shouldered coped wallhead stack to the south-east elevation, and coped gablehead stacks to the remainder with circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods complete the exterior.

The interior retains original cornices and skirting boards predominantly in place.

Carrington Hill underwent thorough repairs in 1790. Further repairs and additions were carried out by Thomas Brown of Uphall in 1850, who also undertook alterations to Carrington Kirk.

The property includes several ancillary structures:

A single-storey building to the south, built into the angle of a walled garden, is constructed of random sandstone rubble with rubble dressings, boarded timber doors, and small-pane windows. It has a graded grey slate roof with some 20th-century rooflights, coped stone skews, and cast-iron rainwater goods.

A pink sandstone rubble garage adjoins to the south-east, featuring droved dressings and boarded timber 2-leaf doors, with brick, timber and harled additions.

Former offices to the west are single-storey and attic, built of random rubble with rubble and droved dressings. The south-west elevation has replacement small-pane windows and porch, the north-east has a replacement small-pane window, and the south-east is blank. The north-west elevation features an advanced section of wall at ground-floor centre with a boarded timber door to the attic above and a flanking window to the left. The roof is graded grey slate, originally thatched, with lead ridge, coped stone skews, and coped gablehead stacks with circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods are present.

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

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