Manse, Blackswell Church, 5 Blackswell Lane, Hamilton

The Manse at Blackswell Church, located at 5 Blackswell Lane in Hamilton, is a traditional estate house dating from the mid to late 18th century, with later additions and alterations. This two-storey building features an attic and has a rectangular plan. The principal elevation is harled with polished dressings, while the rest of the structure is made of sandstone rubble. It has long and short quoins and raised margins.

The symmetrical principal elevation includes a flat-roofed corniced timber porch that projects from the center bay of the ground floor, leading to a panelled timber door with a letterbox fanlight. Above this door, there is a window on the first floor. The flanking bays on both sides have regular fenestration on the ground and first floors, and there are dormer windows with catslide roofs on either side of the attic floor.

The gabled elevation features a bowed turnpike stair tower that projects from the center bay, breaking the eaves with its half-conical roof and a window at the center. The flanking bays on the left and right also have regular fenestration on the ground and first floors.

Another gabled elevation has a single-storey outbuilding addition attached to the ground floor, which includes boarded timber openings on the right return and a slate roof with a lead ridge. There is an infilled opening to the right of the first floor above.

The building is adorned with timber sash and case windows, including 4-pane, 12-pane, and 18-pane styles. It has a grey slate roof with a lead ridge, stone skews with moulded skewputts, and cement-faced coped gablehead stacks with circular cans. The cast-iron rainwater goods complete the exterior.

Inside, there is a boarded timber entrance porch leading to a panelled timber inner door with round-arched glazed upper panes and a letterbox fanlight. The interior retains skirting boards, cornices, door and window architraves, and panelled timber doors. A timber turnpike stair adds to the character of the interior.