Description

Circa 1875. Former Manse, 2-storey L-plan house with
attic. Squared and snecked, stugged pink sandstone,
some ashlar dressings, base course, roll-moulded string
courses and eaves course, stone mullions. Yellow
stone to sides; squared whinstone rubble at rear with
yellow stugged sandstone dressings.
S ELEVATION: 3-bay. Broad, advanced gabled bay to outer
left, canted bipartite windows at ground with cornice,
string course; and at 1st floor, cornice and blocking
course with leaf motif in roundels. Bipartite to attic.
2-storey canted porch in re-entrant angle with cornice
and blocking course. Roll-moulded doorway with strip
fanlight. Bipartite to left at ground, 2 single lights
at 1st floor. Corbelled stair turret to left at 1st
floor in re-entrant angle of porch and wing, with slit
window, string course and bracketted cornice and
blocking course with decorative square panels.
Bipartites with stone transoms at ground and 1st floor
to right of porch. Broad gabled bay to outer right,
canted bipartite bay window at ground with cornice and
blocking course; decorative roundels as above.
Tripartite at 1st floor, hooded by moulded string
course. Decorative relief roundel by moulded string
course. Decorative relief roundel to gable head
enclosing 5 smaller quatrefoil roundels.
N ELEVATION: (rear) 2-storey with basement and attic,
4-bay. Single light to each floor of middle bays,
smaller window at centre of 1st floor. Bipartite to each
floor of outer left bay, single light to attic. Outer
right bay projecting at basement with bipartite. Splayed
at corners into canted window at ground floor with
cornice and blocking course. Bipartite at 1st floor,
single light to attic.
W ELEVATION: 3 centrally grouped bays, on sloping
ground; bipartite to 3 floors at outer left, small
single lights to basement and 1st floor at centre,
bipartites to ground and 1st floor at right. Gableheads
breaking eaves to outer bays.
E ELEVATION: moulded skews with angled skewputts to
skews of gablehead, left bay, W elevation with kneelers
and finial.
Grey slates, fish scales to conical roof of turret, lead
ridge brackets. Ashlar coped stacks with cornice and
decorative cans.

Statement of Interest

Built by Alexander Scott of Beanston, circa 1875, loaned

to the Free Church as a second Manse; no longer in use

as such. Lodge listed separately.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17792115

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