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Former manse, still in residential use, built by John and William Smith in 1846, and a walled garden to the west, depicted on historic OS maps. Originally Tarland Manse, it has also formerly been named Kirklands of Tarland. It is a two-storey, three-bay, rectangular-plan Jacobethan-style manse with an additional wing to the rear, and is constructed from squared granite courses, with a base course, eaves course, chamfered margins to openings, coped and shouldered skews with projecting skewputts to the gable ends and gabled dormers breaking the eaves. There are timber mullions and transoms to large rectangular windows and the grey slate roof has lead flashing and twinned, tall, coped and chamfered stacks. The walled garden is constructed from squared granite courses. The principal south elevation has an advanced single-storey entrance porch to the centre, with stone steps leading to a timber panelled door within a Tudor-arched frame and chamfered corners to the returns. The porch terminates in a parapet with a central stepped pediment above the cornice. A gabled dormer breaks the eaves to the first floor above the porch and to the west, and there is also a tripartite window to the ground floor bay to the west. To the east is a slightly advanced gabled bay with a tripartite window to the ground and bipartite to the first floor. The rear north elevation has irregular fenestration. To the west is an advanced gabled bay with a garage to the ground and arrow slits to the upper storey. There is a slightly advanced gabled bay to the centre and a gabled bay to the east. The four-bay east side elevation is four-bay is a blank side wall with twin projecting battered wallhead stacks. The west side elevation is six-bay, and has a broad, double-gabled bay to the south with a battered, projecting wallhead stack. The bays to the north have irregular fenestration with a second battered wallhead stack to the centre. A low granite boundary rubble wall terminates in square piers with pyramidal caps.
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Historic Environment Records (HER)