Entrance Gatepiers And Boundary Walls, Walled Garden And Linked Outbuildings, (Former Manse) Including North Courtyard Range And Walls, Abercorn House

Circa 1850 with later additions and possible earlier fabric. Large 2-storey, 4-bay with basement, gabled T-plan Scots Revival former manse on gently sloping site with early 19th century ancillary courtyard range to rear (N) and separate walled garden linked to outbuildings to NE. Later advanced gabled bay to left with canted windows; ballustraded stone steps to entrance in re-entrant angle; pedimented breaking eaves dormers; curved stair to rear re-entrant angle. Stugged coursed blonde ashlar with droved margins; coursed rubble to secondary elevations. Chamfered arises to window openings; blank plaques to dormers; ball finials to canted bay.

Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows with iron bars to basement level; graded grey slates; diamond section skews with stepped detail; corniced ashlar end and gable stacks, tall clay cans; cast-iron gutters spanning windows; cast-iron downpipes; lead hoppers, ridge and flashings.

INTERIOR: good late 19th century decorative scheme in place. Glazed, panelled entrance screen, 6-panelled doors to principal rooms, dado rails to ground floor. Includes a number of plain classical marble and timber fireplaces; highly decorative foliate cornice to principal E room. Heavy curved ashlar stone stair with stone newel post, banister and skirting. Basement retains flagstone floor, servant's quarters, 2 small cold store rooms with stone shelving and half boarded shutters to windows, large former kitchen to front.

NORTH COURTYARD RANGE AND WALLS: enclosed courtyard range linked to N with granite setts and boarded doors: mono-pitch range with single stalls and steps to hen-house; smaller pantiled range with timber doocot linked to N wing of house; later piended stable with arched cartshed opening to E.

WALLED GARDEN AND OUTBUILDINGS: piended stable with arrow-slit windows, slate roof and brick cobbled floor linked to SW corner of large walled garden to NE of house. Small adjoining rear store with stone fireplace to inside SW corner of walled garden.

ENTRANCE GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: rubble stone boundary wall to SE linking garden walls to lower curved snecked ashlar coped walls flanking solid stone square gatepiers with shallow pyramid capitals to form S gateway.