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Latitude: 55.6973 / 55°41'50"N
Longitude: -3.6845 / 3°41'4"W
OS Eastings: 294223
OS Northings: 646152
OS Grid: NS942461
Mapcode National: GBR 22QK.3J
Mapcode Global: WH5SL.C2Q7
Plus Code: 9C7RM8W8+W6
Entry Name: Glebe House, Carstairs
Listing Name: Glebe House, Carstairs, Including Stable Block, Walls, Gatepiers, and Walled Garden
Listing Date: 24 May 1994
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 338304
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB6643
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Carstairs, Glebe House
ID on this website: 200338304
Location: Carstairs
County: South Lanarkshire
Electoral Ward: Clydesdale East
Parish: Carstairs
Traditional County: Lanarkshire
Tagged with: Manse
William Burn, 1820. 2-storey, 3-bay, irregular-plan former manse. Stugged sandstone coursers, rubble to right return elevation and rear, ashlar dressings, piended grey slate roof. Base course, wallhead course, stugged ashlar quoins tooled as margins to angles and window jambs; single windows, originally with timber 12-pane sash and case glazing, now with out-of-character uPVC frames; corniced mid-pitch ashlar stacks, wallhead stack rising through eaves at left return elevation.
FRONT ELEVATION: tripartite segmental-arched doorpiece with sidelights at centre right re-entrant angle, single storey, flat-roofed segmental-arched porch with diagonal buttress, window to
main wall above, advanced bay to left with canted window to ground floor, single window to 1st, window to ground and 1st floor right.
RIGHT RETURN ELEVATION: 2 windows to ground and 1st floor (blinded to 1st floor right).
LEFT RETURN ELEVATION: 2 windows to ground and 1st floor, blinded to right.
REAR ELEVATION: advanced gable to centre, central window to ground and 1st floor, lower 2-storey harled addition slightly advanced from right re-entrant angle, single storey addition to left re-entrant angle.
INTERIOR: encaustic tile floor in hall; slender decorative cast-iron balusters to stone staircase and landing; some original chimneypieces and joinery; plain cornices.
STABLEBLOCK TO REAR: single storey, L-plan, adjoined to house by high curtain wall. Rubble built with ashlar dressings and piended grey slate roof, boarded doors, fixed pane windows
with timber louvres to bottom. Inner (courtyard) elevation; square-headed cart entrance to centre left, door to left, door flanked by windows to right, further door to far right, timber dovecot
entrance at eaves with 6 flight holes incorporating openwork designs of a Christian cross, crescent moon, star, thistle and love-heart; gable masked by lean-to advanced to far left with midden walls further advances from angles. Outer elevation: 2 blocked entrances; 2-leaf door to return elevation with paired ventilators to left and single ventilator to right.
WALLS AND GATEPIERS: 2 ashlar gatepiers with shallow pyramidal caps to stable court adjoining midden wall and curtain wall advanced from rear elevation; long, rubble curved retaining wall to rear, 2 monolithic gatepiers with tall pyramidal caps leading to paddock.
WALLED GARDEN: rectangular-plan rubble walled garden in ruinous condition in field adjoining.
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