Eccles Manse

Eccles Manse is a former manse dating from 1813, with later additions and alterations. It is a two-storey, three-bay building in a plain classical style, with a two-storey wing at the rear forming an L-plan, and further single-storey rear additions. The front is constructed of coursed and stugged sandstone, while the north-east side is painted harl, and the remaining elevations are harl-pointed rubble. A raised base course, ashlar quoins, painted margins to the front, and projecting cills are present throughout. Two single-storey, rectangular-plan stable blocks stand to the west.

The south-east elevation, which serves as the main entrance front, features a step leading to a timber panelled door centrally positioned at ground level. This is topped by a fanlight with crossed astragals and a pilastered, corniced door surround. A single window is positioned above the entrance at the first floor. Single windows are placed at both ground and first floors in the flanking bays.

The north-east side has the main two-bay house with single windows at both ground and first floors in each bay. An attic light is offset to the right of centre. A two-storey wing is recessed to the right, with single windows at both floors to the left. A single-storey, two-bay wing is recessed further to the outer right, also with single windows on both floors.

The north-west rear elevation shows gabled two-storey and single-storey wings projecting to the outer left. The original house is recessed to the right, with a single window centered at the first floor. A single-storey, three-bay lean-to addition extends across the ground floor.

On the south-west side, the main house has a single window at ground level to the left of centre, with single windows at both floors in the flanking bays. An attic light is offset to the left of centre. A recessed two-storey, two-bay wing is to the left, and a single-storey lean-to addition obscures the bay to the right. A single window is placed at the first floor, and another at both floors in the bay to the left. A single-storey, two-bay wing extends to the outer left, with a single window in the right-hand bay and a boarded timber door with a two-pane letterbox fanlight in the bay to the left.

The windows are predominantly 12-pane, set in timber sash and case frames, with rooflights. The roof is covered in grey slate, with stone coped skews and replacement rainwater goods. Corniced ridge and apex stacks are present, topped with various circular cans.

The interior was not inspected in 1998.

The stables are constructed from harl-pointed sandstone rubble with tooled and droved rubble dressings. The eastern block has a southwest-facing entrance elevation with a square-headed, boarded timber carriage door offset to the left of centre, a boarded timber door to the outer left and a boarded timber stable door offset to the right of centre. The western block has a northeast facing elevation with flanking single bay additions. The main block has boarded timber stable doors in both bays, with a rubble relieving arch to the right. A boarded timber door is found in a lean-to addition to the outer left, and two-leaf boarded timber doors fill a segmental-arched carriage opening in a piended addition to the outer right. They feature grey slate roofs, stone coped skews, and small skylights. Internally, the stables have simple features, including part whitewashed rubble walls and open timber ceilings.

Boundary walls, quadrant walls, and gatepiers of square-coped rubble sandstone partially enclose the site, with remnants of a near square-plan walled garden to the north-east. Coursed sandstone quadrant walls flank the entrance, leading to square-plan gatepiers with hemispherical caps and a modern timber gate.