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

The property comprises a circa 1850 Scots Revival former manse, along with ancillary features including a north courtyard range, walls, a walled garden, and outbuildings. The manse is a large, two-storey, four-bay, gabled T-plan building with a basement, set on a gently sloping site. A separate walled garden is located to the northeast, linked to outbuildings. A later, advanced gabled bay has been added to the left-hand side, featuring canted windows. A ballustraded stone staircase leads to the entrance in the re-entrant angle, with a curved stair leading to the rear re-entrant angle, and pedimented breaking eaves dormers.

The exterior is constructed of stugged, coursed blonde ashlar with droved margins, while secondary elevations are of coursed rubble. The window arises are chamfered, with blank plaques above the dormers and ball finials to the canted bay. The windows are predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case, with iron bars to the basement level. The roof is covered with graded grey slates, featuring diamond section skews with stepped detail. Corniced ashlar end and gable stacks are present, topped with tall clay cans, alongside cast-iron gutters spanning the windows, cast-iron downpipes, lead hoppers, and flashings.

The interior retains a good late 19th century decorative scheme, including a glazed, panelled entrance screen, six-panelled doors to the principal rooms, and dado rails on the ground floor. Features include plain classical marble and timber fireplaces, a highly decorative foliate cornice to the principal east room, and a heavy curved ashlar stone stair with stone newel post, banister, and skirting. The basement includes a flagstone floor, former servant's quarters, two small cold store rooms with stone shelving and half-boarded shutters to the windows, and a large former kitchen to the front.

The north courtyard range, linked to the rear (north) of the house, is enclosed with granite setts and boarded doors. It includes a mono-pitch range with stalls and steps to a hen-house, a smaller pantiled range with a timber doocot linked to the north wing of the house, and a later piended stable with an arched cartshed opening to the east.

The walled garden, located to the northeast of the house, is linked to a piended stable with arrow-slit windows, a slate roof, and a brick cobbled floor. A small adjoining rear store, with a stone fireplace inside, is located in the southwest corner of the walled garden.

The entrance is marked by rubble stone boundary walls to the southeast, connecting garden walls to lower, curved snecked ashlar coped walls. Flanking these walls are solid stone square gatepiers with shallow pyramid capitals forming the southern gateway.