Description

Earlier 19th century. 2 storey; 3 bay, L plan manse with mid 19th century additions and alterations. Squared and snecked tooled sandstone with droved dressings, polished to margins; long and short quoins. Base course; chamfered reveals; blind pointed arched recesses set in gableheads; decorative stone finials to apex of gables.

SE (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: asymmetrical; mid 19th century gabled bay advanced to left with bipartite window to ground and single window centred to 1st floor; single storey, stugged, gabled mid 19th century porch to re entrant angle; panelled timber door and small window to right return; regular fenestration to centre and right bays.

NE ELEVATION: asymmetrical; advanced gabled bay to left with single window offset to left at 1st floor; window to right return at 1st floor; central bay (mid 19th century) recessed, with later snecked sandstone rubble porch and car port advanced to ground floor; window to left; car port to right with window and door to inside left return; skirt roof; irregular fenestration to 1st floor; mid 19th century bay to right slightly recessed with single window centred to ground.

NW ELEVATION: asymmetrical, 3 bay; advanced central bay (mid 19th century) with bipartite window at ground; single window to 1st floor; stone finial missing; car port in bay to left (see above); late 20th century conservatory in re entrant angle with recessed bay to right.

SW ELEVATION: asymmetrical, 3 bay; gabled central bay with single window off centre to left of ground and 1st floors; regular fenestration to outer left; blank bay to right.

Predominantly 12 pane lying pane and 8 pane timber sash and case windows. Purple grey graded slate roof with lead ridges; stone coped skews with beaked skewputts; cast iron rainwater goods; polished ashlar gablehead stacks with paired offset corniced flues; ridge stack detailed as above; single ridge stack.

GATEPIERS, BOUNDARY WALLS AND OUTBUILDINGS: stugged sandstone gatepiers with stop chamfered droved angles and pyramidal caps. Random rubble boundary wall to NE, NW and SW; coped to NW and SW; droved doorway to NE with boarded timber door; roofless rubble lean to with central doorway and corrugated iron roofed rubble lean to adjacent, to centre of SW inside wall; rubble wall with semi circular coping perpendicular to SW wall swept down to house; boarded timber door leading to front garden; Rubble outbuilding with boarded timber door and slate roof to S corner of garden; simple cast iron railings on low rubble wall to SE of manse.

INTERIOR: not seen 1997.

Statement of Interest

There was an older manse on the site of this one, described in the NSA as "a venerable mansion", however the Heritors Minutes note that although it was a fine building, by 1815 it was falling into disrepair, and was hence replaced by the present building.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17826743

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Recommended Books

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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)