Outbuilding, Carrington Hill, Manse Road, Carrington

Carrington Hill, Manse Road, Carrington

Outbuilding

Built in 1756 as the manse for Carrington Kirk, this substantial two-storey and attic building overlooks the 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 repairs and additions were carried out by Thomas Brown of Uphall in 1850. It remains a well-proportioned building retaining much of its original character.

The north-east (principal) elevation is asymmetrical with four bays. An advanced gabled bay to the outer left contains a centred window to both ground and first floors. To the right return is a ground-floor window. A flat-roofed single-storey porch dating to 1836 projects into the re-entrant angle to the right, with a window to its centre and a polished sandstone architraved doorway with panelled timber door to its right return. Windows to the recessed penultimate bay to the right and the outer right of the ground floor are complemented by regular fenestration to the remaining bays of the first floor.

The north-west elevation is symmetrical with two gabled bays, each with regular fenestration to ground and first floors. The south-west elevation is asymmetrical with five bays. The penultimate bay to the right is advanced and gabled. A single-storey flat-roofed addition with a central window projects at ground-floor level. The first floor of the right section has an off-centre window, with a ground-floor window to the left return and a blind window above at first-floor level. The right return has a first-floor window; the ground floor is obscured by the porch addition. Irregular fenestration appears across three bays to the left. A coped rubble wall with a doorway projects between the penultimate bay to the left and the outer left bay. A twentieth-century glazed lean-to porch adjoins the ground floor of the bay to the outer right, with a first-floor window above and a bipartite dormer in the roof.

The south-east elevation is asymmetrical with four bays. The penultimate bay to the right and the bay to the outer right have replacement small-pane windows at ground level; regular fenestration appears above. The penultimate bay to the left and the bay to the outer left are gabled, with a ground-floor window to the penultimate bay, a glazed door to the outer left bay, and regular first-floor fenestration. A four-pane window set off-centre to the left appears in the gablehead.

The windows are predominantly twelve-pane timber sash and case with metal-framed exterior secondary glazing. The roof is grey slate with a lead ridge. Stone skews are coped. A shouldered coped wallhead stack projects from the south-east elevation, with coped gablehead stacks to the remainder, all with circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods are fitted throughout.

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

To the south of the house stands a single-storey building built into the angle of the walled garden, constructed of random sandstone rubble with rubble dressings, boarded timber doors, and small-pane windows. Its graded grey slate roof features some twentieth-century rooflights; stone skews are coped, and cast-iron rainwater goods are present.

Adjoining to the south-east is a pink sandstone rubble garage with droved dressings and a boarded timber two-leaf door, with brick, timber, and harled additions.

To the west of the house stands a single-storey and attic former office building of random rubble with rubble and droved dressings. The south-west elevation has a replacement small-pane window and porch; the north-east elevation has a replacement small-pane window; the south-east elevation is blank. An advanced section of wall at the centre of the ground floor of the north-west elevation contains a boarded timber door to the attic above, with a flanking window to its left. The graded grey slate roof, originally thatched, has a lead ridge. Stone skews are coped, and coped gablehead stacks with circular cans are present. Cast-iron rainwater goods are fitted.

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