Manse, Mail Church

The Manse at Mail Church is an earlier 19th-century building that served as a former manse, located on a south-facing shore-front site alongside the church to the west.

The church features a three-bay hall design with porches on the east gable and south elevation. Its walls are harled, and it has segmental-arched windows. The north elevation is symmetrical, displaying regular window placement. The east gable includes a projecting porch with a window and a vertically-boarded timber door on the north side. The south elevation is asymmetrical, featuring a gabled entrance porch with a window to the right of center, while the left side has regular fenestration in two bays. The west gable has a single window positioned to the right of center. The windows consist of four-pane timber fixed-lights, which are hoppered in the west porch. The roofs are covered with purple-grey slate, pitched with concrete skew copes on both the hall and porches, and there is a shouldered apex stack on the porch gable with a cope and octagonal can.

The manse itself is a two-storey, three-bay symmetrical house with cement-rendered walls and margined windows that have projecting sills, all painted. The south (principal) elevation is symmetrical, featuring a modern conservatory that projects at ground level in the center bay, with windows in the flanking bays and regular fenestration on the first floor. The east elevation includes a single-storey garage with a mono-pitch roof that projects at ground level, with a blank wall above. The north (rear) elevation has a two-storey tower that is advanced at the center bay, with regular fenestration on both the ground and first floors. The garage elevation is parapetted and features two-leaf vertically-boarded timber doors extending to the right. The windows throughout the manse are 12-pane timber sash and case. The roof is also covered with purple-grey slate and has a piended design, with a pair of stone-coped ridge stacks topped with octagonal cans.