Manse, United Free Church, Allanton

1844 with later additions and alterations. Former plain T-plan church, formerly with 2 galleries; rectangular-plan 2-storey 3-bay classical house sited to NE of church with single storey outbuilding adjoining to W linking house to former stables/hearse house. Roughly squared and snecked sandstone to church with stugged ashlar dressings; render to E gable. Roughly squared and snecked sandstone to S, W and N elevations of house, with raised polished ashlar margins, droved ashlar dressings; rendered E elevation. Flush eaves course to S elevation of house.

CHURCH: N ELEVATION: 3-bay. Gabled projecting bay to centre, now with 2-leaf sliding door at ground; round window to gablehead and fleur-de- lys finial to apex. Window to E return elevation of projection. Window to each flanking bay. E ELEVATION: gabled with 2 pointed-arch window at ground with round window to gablehead above; ashlar fleur-de- lys finial as before. S ELEVATION: 4-bay. Window in bay to inner, outer right and outer left. Small single storey projection in bay to inner left (former vestry). W ELEVATION: similar to E elevation, except with blinded windows at ground; modern timber boarded shed addition (not linked internally).

4-pane windows; leaded round window to gablehead of N elevation. Slate roof with ashlar coped skews and skew corbels.

INTERIOR: king-post open-trussed roof with ashlar spring-corbels and timber boarding. Galleries and furniture removed, 1996.

MANSE: S ELEVATION: regularly-disposed bays with consoled and corniced doorway to centre; deep-set 2-leaf panelled door (formerly 9-panelled door with later glazed panels) with 4-pane rectangular fanlight above; window at 1st floor above. Window to each floor of flanking bays.

N ELEVATION: irregularly disposed. Single storey projection to centre with window to N; boarded door to outer right of W return elevation. Stair window above, to left of centre. Lean-to addition to re-entrant angle to E, in bay to left. Window to each floor of bay to right.

12-pane timber sash and case windows. Piended slate roof with brick wallhead stacks to side elevations.

INTERIOR: shutters in place; cast-iron banister to stairs, 1996.

OUTBUILDINGS: single storey linking outbuilding to W of house with monopitch slate roof and modern monopitch addition to S. N ELEVATION: 3-bay. Split boarded door in bay to centre (not central). 2-leaf boarded door in bay to outer right. Boarded door in bay to outer left (to linking wall, not outbuilding, aligned with house not projection of outbuilding). HEARSE HOUSE/STABLES: adjoining single storey linking outbuilding to W. N ELEVATION: advanced from line of linking outbuilding. Gabled; sliding double boarded door in bay to left; window (glazed and vented) in bay to right. S ELEVATION: modern timber lean-to conservatory. Slate roof with coped ashlar skews. Weather vane to N gablehead.

BOUNDARY WALL: whinstone and sandstone rubble with rubble coping to S.