Chalmers Parish Church Manse, 161 Kirk Road, Wishaw

Chalmers Parish Church Manse, located at 161 Kirk Road in Wishaw, was built in 1871. This two-storey, three-bay building features an asymmetrical rectangular plan with a gabled roof. It is constructed from sandstone ashlar and has projecting ashlar quoins. The date stone from 1871 is positioned in the gable wallhead. The façade displays hierarchical fenestration with elaborate Renaissance mouldings and carvings, including a base course, a cill band course at the first floor, an eaves band, and a cornice. The windows have segmental-headed openings with carved ornamentation in the spandrels, pilaster mullions, margins, and a billeted cornice.

On the principal (south) elevation, stone steps lead to a central door, which features a round arched entrance with a projecting keystone and a rolled moulding around the reveal. To the right, there is an advanced gabled bay with a full-height canted, mullioned window. A tripartite window is located to the left at ground level, while the first-floor windows are positioned off-centre to the left and outer left, topped with obelisk-finialed pedimented dormerheads. The outer left window is flanked by carved scroll details.

The rear (north) elevation is made of rough dressed sandstone and has irregular fenestration. It features a large rectangular stained glass window at the first floor center and a single-storey office wing to the right with a piended roof. Both side elevations (east and west) are also constructed of rough dressed sandstone and have irregular fenestration with three windows on the east side and more irregular openings on the west side.

The building has plate glass timber sash and case windows and a grey slate roof. The ashlar piended coped skews and ashlar gablet coped skews have bracketed skew putts, and there are ashlar coped stacks on the east and west sides. The rainwater goods are made of cast iron.

Inside, the manse retains a largely intact Victorian interior. It features a timber panelled vestibule door with a segmental fanlight, timber skirting boards, timber panelled doors with brass handles, a timber banister, a scroll cornice, and a central rosette in the drawing room. There is also large leaded stained glass in the stairwell.

The boundary wall consists of a low modern brick wall.