Building record MAB20081 - OLD PARISH MANSE, KING EDWARD

Former manse and service cottage, still in residential use.

Former manse and service cottage, still in residential use. The former manse is dated 1767 with various later additions and alterations, and is built on the site of an earlier single-storey, thatched-roofed manse. The harled rubble former manse building has contrasting painted margins and some tooled ashlar dressings. There is 12-pane glazing in timber sash windows in the surviving small 1767 front windows and plate glass and four-pane elsewhere. The slate roof has coped end and wallhead chimney stacks and coped skews. The various 19th century additions and alterations that form a roughly cruciform plan. The 1767 nucleus of the manse has a central south-facing, two-storey, three-bay block with small windows and a centre door. The manse was probably raised in 1833 to accommodate an attic of two rooms lit by small windows below the wallhead in the outer bays only. Skewputt datestones at the south-east were also raised and re-instated and new margined end stacks added. Major alterations were carried out in 1870, probably by A and W Reid, Elgin. A new projecting crowstepped south wing was added with a ground floor dining room and first floor drawing room lit by a full height tooled ashlar canted bay window in a crowstepped and finialled front gable. A square entrance porch was added in the re-entrant angle with a two-pane fanlight to the door and a blocking course. The dormer windows in the south elevation were raised to break the wallhead and gabletted dormerheads were added. Part of the rear wing was probably also added. Repairs and alterations were carried out in 1882-83 and 1894, again probably by A and W Reid, Elgin. The two-storey, three-bay rear service wing was completed in its present form to accommodate a new kitchen and first floor service bedrooms and a tall and narrow border-glazed rear stair window. Inside the large front dining and drawing rooms have plain plaster cornices, and a the front attic rooms have a coombed ceiling with simple plaster cornices, possibly from 1833. To the rear is a service cottage that was probably built in the early 19th century. It is a two-storey, two-bay harled cottage with painted margins, perhaps incorporating a former stable. There is a door and flanking window in the east elevation facing the service court and rear entrance to the manse service wing and small first floor windows. Mainly 12-pane glazing is used and there is a single end chimney stack and asbestos tiled roof. A coped rubble garden wall divides the garden from the road at the north and east. To the rear is a low coped wall leading to square-section, pyramidal capped piers with two-leaf iron gates. The former manse steading is to the east (NJ75NW0093).

Period Notes
Listed 31/08/1993. Built in 1767 with extensive 19th century alterations.

Record last edited

Jan 14 2021 3:16PM