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Latitude: 54.9741 / 54°58'26"N
Longitude: -5.0259 / 5°1'33"W
OS Eastings: 206434
OS Northings: 568572
OS Grid: NX064685
Mapcode National: GBR FHZK.DMH
Mapcode Global: WH1QW.R7WN
Plus Code: 9C6PXXFF+JJ
Entry Name: Old Manse, Cairnryan
Listing Name: Cairnryan Old Manse Including Ancillary Structure, Gatepiers and Boundary Walls
Listing Date: 20 July 1972
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 342577
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB10167
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Cairnryan, Old Manse
ID on this website: 200342577
Location: Inch
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Stranraer and the Rhins
Parish: Inch
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Late 18th century. 2-storey, 3-bay L-plan former manse, with attached ancillary structure. Painted rubble; contrasting painted cills.
SW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: advanced, central gabled entrance porch; timber door; moulded skewputts and ball finial to gable, flanked to right by small circular window; single window aligned above at 1st floor; regular fenestration to flanking outer bays.
NW (SIDE ELEVATION): single windows at ground and 1st floor to left of main gable.
NW (REAR/SIDE) ELEVATION: advanced lean-to entrance porch; timber door; bipartite and single square window to lean-to section to left at ground; single window at 1st floor breaks eaves to form segmental head; single window at 1st floor to outer left of main house.
SE (SIDE) ELEVATION: blank gable to main section; 2 small square windows to lower height section to right; 2-leaf opening to ancillary structure (including lean-to) to outer right (see below).
Predominantly 4-, 6- and 12-pane timber sash and case glazing. Grey slate roof, re-slated to rear; rooflights; stone skews; moulded skewputts; coped gablehead stacks; polygonal cans.
INTERIOR: not seen 1999.
ANCILLARY STRUCTURE, GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: attached single storey, rectangular-plan ancillary structure to N, with attached lower height lean-to; square-plan gatepiers to outer left (gatepiers to right lead to Lochryan House - see separate list description); ball finials atop; rubble boundary wall encloses site; deeply splayed coping to NE section.
Distinguished from other local late 18th century rural architecture by its ball-finialled gabled entrance porch, especially the rosette moulding to the skewputts. Also of note are the ball-finialled gatepiers and rubble boundary wall enclosing the former manse. Sub-divided into 2 flats, 1996.
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