Dairyman's House And Archway, Buxley, Manderston House

This is a single-storey and attic house with an L-plan layout, built in 1900 to a Scottish 17th-century style, and designed by John Kinross. It encloses a dairy court to the west (listed separately). The house is constructed of rubble sandstone, partly harled, with ashlar dressings. A deep base course has battered coping, and the doors and windows have roll-moulded surrounds. There is also an eaves course.

The west elevation features a central door with a cartouche bearing the Miller crest, and a boarded door with a wrought iron handle. A window is positioned to the right, and a projecting gable to the left includes a ground-floor window and an attic window which breaks the eaves. This attic window has a narrow opening in an ogeed surround with a cusped head, replicating a former lintel from the St Giles vestry in Edinburgh. An archway is located abutting at a right angle to the outer left.

The south-facing elevation has a lop-sided gable and a chamfered southeast corner. This corner has a narrow window below a pilaster-flanked armorial panel in a roll-moulded surround, with carved masks at the foot of the pilasters. The pilasters finish with crocketed pinnacles that are truncated by corbels, which revert the corner to a square at attic level. The gablehead features a large window with a strapworked date panel in the lintel.

The east elevation, facing the dairy, has a ground floor abutted by a pentice roof belonging to the dairy cloister garth. There is an off-centre door and two windows to the right. A seat recess is set within a segmental-arched surround, featuring carved fleuron studs, scrolled foliage at the impost level, and an ogeed hoodmould. A simple bench is set within the recess. An attic window is in a raised wallhead, formed by a lop-sided gable. To the right, a window is contained within a high-relief border that breaks the eaves in a gabled dormerhead with carved details in the ashlar gablehead. To the left, an armorial shield sits within an ogee-headed panel, flanked by pinnacled pilasters, similar to those on the chamfered corner. A screen wall from the dairy court abuts to the left, at ground level, and is set at a right angle.

The north elevation abuts the northwest corner of the dairy court at ground level.

The windows are timber sash and case with multi-pane glazing, and the roof is covered with graded grey slates. The gables are crowstepped with beak skewputts. Ashlar stacks are present to the ridge and gablehead, with billetted and battered coping, and there are ashlar ridges. Square lead downpipes and decorative rainwater hoppers are also present. An ornate wrought-iron bell bracket with bell flanks the front door.

Inside, a decorative timber stair balustrade has a panelled newel post and finial. The door features a decorative brass lock and handle, with fielded panelling.

The archway has a pointed carriage arch with a deeply chamfered and moulded surround on the south side, and a stepped overthrow with sawtooth coping. It links to the garden wall of the Head Gardener's House to the west. It includes two-leaf wrought-iron gates with a small postern gate in the west leaf, and a railed arch-head.