Stable Block (North Range), Glebe House, Carstairs

This is a stable block (north range) and related features associated with Glebe House, built in 1820. The stable block was designed by William Burn.

The main house is a two-storey, three-bay, irregular-plan building. It is constructed with roughly squared sandstone blocks (stugged), with a rubble rear and right return elevation. The exterior features ashlar dressings, a piended grey slate roof, a base course, a wallhead course, and stugged ashlar quoins. The windows originally had timber 12-pane sash and case glazing; these have since been replaced with uPVC frames. Corniced ashlar stacks are present, with a wallhead stack rising through the eaves on the left return elevation. The front elevation includes a tripartite, segmental-arched doorpiece with sidelights and a single-storey, flat-roofed porch with a diagonal buttress. An advanced bay to the left has a canted window on the ground floor, with a single window above. The right and left return elevations each have two windows to both the ground and first floors, with one window on the right side of the first floor blinded. The rear elevation features an advanced gable, a central window on both floors, and a lower, two-storey harled addition slightly projecting from the right re-entrant angle. A single-storey addition is also situated on the left re-entrant angle. Internal features include an encaustic tile floor in the hall, slender cast-iron balusters on a stone staircase and landing, some original chimneypieces and joinery, and plain cornices.

The stable block, located to the rear, is a single storey with an L-shaped plan and is adjoined to the main house by a high curtain wall. It is built of rubble with ashlar dressings and a piended grey slate roof. It has boarded doors, fixed-pane windows with timber louvres, and an inner (courtyard) elevation. A square-headed cart entrance is located centrally to the left, with further doors and windows to the right. A timber dovecot entrance at the eaves includes six flight holes with openwork designs incorporating a Christian cross, a crescent moon, a star, a thistle, and a love-heart. A lean-to is advanced to the far left, with midden walls further projecting from the angles. The outer elevation has two blocked entrances and a two-leaf door on the return elevation with paired ventilators to the left and a single ventilator to the right.

Two ashlar gatepiers with shallow pyramidal caps mark the entrance to the stable court, adjoining a midden wall and curtain wall that extends from the rear elevation. A long, rubble curved retaining wall curves to the rear, leading to a paddock via two monolithic gatepiers with tall pyramidal caps. A rectangular-plan rubble walled garden, now in ruinous condition, is situated in a field adjoining the property.