Walled Garden, Glebe House, Carstairs

This is a complex of buildings and landscape features centred on Glebe House, constructed in 1820 by William Burn. The core of the site is a two-storey, three-bay former manse built of stugged sandstone with rubble to the right return and rear, and ashlar dressings. It has a piended grey slate roof. The building is characterised by a base course, wallhead course, and stugged ashlar quoins, with single windows originally fitted with timber 12-pane sash and case glazing, now largely replaced with uPVC frames. Corniced ashlar stacks are prominent, with one rising through the eaves on the left return.

The front elevation features a tripartite, segmental-arched doorpiece with sidelights, a single-storey, flat-roofed porch with a diagonal buttress, and an advanced bay with a canted ground-floor window. The right return elevation has two windows to each floor, with the first floor window on the right side blinded. The left return is similar, with two windows to each floor and a blinded right-hand window. The rear elevation includes a central gable, a central window on each floor, a lower two-storey harled addition, and a single-storey addition to the left.

Internally, the hall features an encaustic tile floor. A stone staircase and landing are fitted with slender, decorative cast-iron balusters. Some original fireplaces and joinery remain, along with plain cornices.

To the rear is a single-storey, L-plan stable block, connected to the main house by a high curtain wall. Built of rubble with ashlar dressings and a piended grey slate roof, it features boarded doors, fixed-pane windows with timber louvres, and a timber dovecot entrance at the eaves. This dovecot incorporates openwork designs depicting a Christian cross, crescent moon, star, thistle, and a love-heart. The courtyard elevation displays a square-headed cart entrance, doors, and windows. The outer elevation has blocked entrances and a two-leaf door with ventilators.

The site also includes two ashlar gatepiers with pyramidal caps leading to a stable court and paddock. A long, curved rubble retaining wall runs along the rear, connecting to gatepiers with tall pyramidal caps. A rectangular-plan rubble walled garden, now in a ruinous condition, lies in a field adjacent to the main house.