The Old Manse, Abbey St Bathans

The Old Manse is a house dating from 1822, with later additions and alterations. It is a two-storey building with a basement, constructed in a plain classical style. The main rectangular block is three bays wide, with lower, two-storey, single-bay flanking wings. A gabled porch projects to the front, and a single-storey conservatory has been added to one side.

The exterior is built of harl-pointed squared and snecked whinstone, with cream sandstone ashlar dressings. A painted timber oriel window is located at the rear. Whinstone quoins are present, along with droved sandstone surrounds to the openings and projecting, polished sandstone cills.

The main, or south-east, elevation features a pedimented porch which is advanced at ground level in the bay to the outer left. A single window sits centrally, with a timber-panelled door in the return to the left. A single window is located at ground level in the bay to the outer right; the window at first floor level in this bay has been blocked and painted. Single windows are found in all three bays at the first floor level, with a blocked and painted window in the bay to the outer right. Further single windows are positioned at both floors in a recessed bay on a falling ground, and a bipartite window sits within a lean-to projection in the bay to the left. A single window is recessed at first floor level. A single-storey conservatory addition is present to the outer left.

The north-west, or rear, elevation includes a bipartite window at basement level, off-set to the left of centre, and a single window to the right. A four-light canted oriel window is centrally placed at ground floor level. There are single windows in two bays above, and a single window at basement level in a full-height bay recessed to the outer left, with a single window in the lean-to projection in the bay to the outer right.

Most windows are timber sash and case with 12 panes. A plate glass timber sash and case window forms the oriel. The roof is covered with graded grey slate, with raised stone skews at the centre. Cast-iron rainwater goods are fitted. There are apex stacks to the central block, rendered on the southwest side and red brick on the northeast side, with various circular cans. A tall red brick wallhead stack rises from the conservatory, with a single circular can.

The interior was not inspected in 1997.

To the southwest is a single-storey, five-bay outbuilding, originally a stable, built of harl-pointed rubble with droved sandstone dressings. It has boarded timber doors and a part grey slate, part corrugated-iron roof, topped with a red brick apex stack. The interior of the outbuilding was not inspected in 1997. A single-storey, single-bay coal shed is sited to the west, constructed of harl-pointed rubble with tooled sandstone dressings, a boarded timber door off-set to the left of centre, a grey slate roof, and replacement rainwater goods. The interior of the coal shed was also not inspected in 1997.

Rubble boundary walls enclose the garden.