Glebe House, Carstairs

Glebe House is a 2-storey, 3-bay, irregular-plan former manse built in 1820 by William Burn. It is constructed of stugged sandstone with rubble to the right return elevation and rear, featuring ashlar dressings and a piended grey slate roof. A base course, wallhead course, and stugged ashlar quoins, tooled as margins to angles and window jambs, are present. The original windows were timber 12-pane sash and case, now replaced with out-of-character uPVC frames. Corniced ashlar stacks rise mid-pitch, with a wallhead stack appearing through the eaves on the left return elevation.

The front elevation has a tripartite segmental-arched doorpiece with sidelights at the centre-right re-entrant angle. A single-storey, flat-roofed porch with a segmental-arched roof and diagonal buttress is integrated, with a window above it. An advanced bay to the left features a canted window on the ground floor, a single window above, and a window to both ground and first floors on the right. The right return elevation has two windows to both ground and first floors, with the first-floor window on the right being blinded. The left return elevation mirrors this with two windows to ground and first floors, also with a blinded right-side first-floor window.

The rear elevation showcases an advanced gable to the centre, with a central window on both ground and first floors. A lower, 2-storey harled addition is slightly advanced from the right re-entrant angle, and a single-storey addition extends from the left re-entrant angle.

The interior includes an encaustic tile floor in the hall, slender decorative cast-iron balusters to a stone staircase and landing, some original chimneypieces and joinery, and plain cornices.

A single-storey, L-plan stableblock adjoins the house to the rear, connected by a high curtain wall. Constructed of rubble with ashlar dressings and a piended grey slate roof, it features boarded doors and fixed pane windows with timber louvres. The inner (courtyard) elevation includes a square-headed cart entrance, doors, and windows. A timber dovecot entrance at the eaves incorporates openwork designs depicting a Christian cross, crescent moon, star, thistle, and love-heart. A lean-to and midden walls further extend the structure. The outer elevation presents two blocked entrances and a two-leaf door with paired and single ventilators on the return elevation.

Two ashlar gatepiers with shallow pyramidal caps mark the entrance to the stable court, alongside a midden wall and curtain wall extending from the rear elevation. A long, curved rubble retaining wall and two monolithic gatepiers with tall pyramidal caps lead to a paddock. A rectangular-plan rubble walled garden, now ruinous, sits in a field adjacent to the property.