Old St Andrew's Manse, Tankerness

Old St Andrew's Manse is a near-classical, crowstep-gabled former manse dating from 1756, with a raised section from 1793, and further enlargement and repairs in 1830. It is a 2-storey and attic, rectangular building of 3 bays, with a slightly projected central bay. A single-storey cottage abuts the west gable to form an L-shaped plan. The main structure is built of harl-pointed roughly coursed rubble with concrete margins around the openings. There’s also a single-storey outbuilding to the north.

The south elevation, which is the principal facade, features a square-plan, piended-roofed entrance porch with a blocked window in the ground floor of the central bay, a doorway in its right return, and a window on each floor above. A gablehead stack rises above. There's a window at ground level in the right bay, a tripartite window above it, and a window at ground level and above in the left bay.

The north elevation has a doorway at ground level in the central bay, a tall stair window above it, a window at ground level in the left bay, and a large, square-headed opening at ground level in the right bay. A piended-roofed attic doorway breaks through the eaves above this opening.

The east side elevation contains a blocked doorway at ground level in the left bay, a window at first floor in the right bay, and an attic window to the right of the gablehead.

The windows are mostly blocked or boarded. The roof is covered in graded stone tiles, with a stone ridge and remnants of cast-iron rainwater goods.

The interior consists of shell remains with evidence of floor divisions. Timber tie beams are visible at the ceiling. Fireplaces are extant at each floor in the east and west walls, and there’s evidence of a low, segmental-arched fireplace at ground level on the north wall.

The cottage forming the west range is a 4-bay, crowstep-gabled building, grouped 2-2, with a lower 2-bay addition to the north. Its west elevation has a rectangular-plan, flat-roofed, glazed entrance porch/sun room spanning the middle bays, a boarded door to the right return, a small window in the outer right bay, and a window in the outer left bay. The rear east elevation evenly distributes windows across its two bays.

The ancillary building, a single-storey, 7-bay store, is situated to the north of the house. Its south elevation has a large, boarded sliding door in the central bay, and deep-set boarded doors with windows flanking each of the three bays. It has a stone tiled roof, a stone ridge, and coped skews.

A coursed rubble boundary wall with a rubble cope runs to the south of the house, bordering the road. Incorporated into this wall is a small, square-plan, flat-roofed store with a boarded door.