Wellgate (former manse), Main Street, Morebattle

Wellgate, formerly a manse, is a two-storey and basement Classical house built between 1828 and 1829 by mason John Winchester and joiner William Clark, with canted-window additions made in 1852. The building has a rectangular plan and a piended roof, featuring harled walls with droved ashlar dressings. The canted windows are made of dark whinstone, which is now painted, and are accented with exposed droved ashlar dressings. The house has an eaves course, raised margins, and quoin strips, with regular fenestration on both the front and rear. Access is via five steps leading to a timber-panelled front door framed by a plain ashlar architrave, while the ground floor of the rear elevation features canted windows that rise from canted bases at the basement level.

The windows are timber sash and case, with 12-, 6-, and 4-pane glazing. The roof is slate, and there are ashlar ridge stacks topped with yellow clay cans.

Inside, the hall features a curved cantilevered stone staircase supported by a contemporary iron column, with decorative cast-iron balusters and a timber rail that rises in front of a central rear window. The drawing room and dining room retain original marble chimneypieces, dadoes, and cornices, while most other rooms also keep their original chimneypieces. The basement kitchen has an original stone chimneypiece with flanking recesses, and six-panelled doors are found throughout the house.

The site includes rubble outbuildings at the northwest corner, connected to the front elevation by a curving stone wall with a doorway leading to the garden. There is also a rubble boundary wall with a coping, and gatepiers topped with squat pyramidal caps made of dressed ashlar.