Parish Manse, Monkton

The Parish Manse at Monkton dates to 1822 and was designed by William Gibson of St Quivox. It was subsequently altered and extended in 1878 and 1895 by John Murdoch. The building is a two-storey and attic, three-bay, T-plan former manse with a central curved splayed porch, canted dormers with piend roofs, and a single-storey piend-roofed rear wing. The main part of the house is of rendered stone with polished red sandstone dressings, while the rear wing is of squared, coursed sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. Features include a base course, moulded eaves course, raised quoin strips, and regular fenestration with raised ashlar margins.

The principal (south) elevation has a flat-roofed porch with plain square pilasters framing a single timber-panelled door and a leaded fanlight above. The curved side walls of the porch contain single windows, and the porch is finished with a cornice and low parapet. A side door is located in the west gable, also with flanking pilasters and a projecting stone canopy. The rear (north) elevation has four bays and irregular fenestration, while the east elevation has a single window and a small, later single-storey addition towards the rear that contains a third entrance.

The windows are timber sash and case with 12 panes to each. The roof is of grey slate with ashlar-coped skews, and there are rooflights to the front and rear. Rendered stone gablehead stacks have later small red clay cans.

The interior features geometric-patterned polychrome floor tiles and decorative ribbed octagonal plaster vaulting in the porch, which is divided into two sections by a wall containing an inner door. A central hall leads to a curved stone staircase with plain iron balusters and a polished wooden handrail, rising through two storeys. The principal ground-floor rooms are bow-ended, with curved timber-panelled doors and a later chimneypiece flanked by recesses. Timber-panelled doors, working timber shutters, and simple cornicing are found throughout the main part of the house. The rear wing's pantry and service areas contain timber-boarded doors and simple timber shelving.

Adjacent to the manse stands a single-storey, roughly rectangular-plan, gabled former stable block. It includes an arched opening to a carriage house within a slightly advanced gabled section at the centre, and has irregular fenestration.