Building record MAB42079 - SOUTH CHURCH MANSE

Manse (No.

Manse (No. 74 Cameron Street), probably designed by James Henderson 1844, and built on the edge of Robert Barclay's planned new town. South Church was built about 25 years later, indicating that this building (No. 74) would originally have been a private house. It is two-storey on a rectangular plan with classic detail and situated on an elevated site surrounded by enclosure walls. Built of roughly squared and coursed rubble with stugged quoins and margins, harled with narrow stone margins to rear, raised base course, grey slate roof, coped square rubble stacks, ashlar coped skews with flat skewputts. The south elevation has a central ground floor bay with flanking dwarf walls, windows in flanking bays, regular fenestration close to the eaves at first floor level, and polygonal roofed canted dormer windows over the outer bays. The rear (north) elevation has asymmetrical fenestration with a variety of elements. Windows have replacement 12-pane and plate glass glazing patterns in timber sash and case windows. Internally, features include some moulded plasterwork , and a steeply curved cantilevered staircase with decorative ironwork balusters. The boundary walls are built of flat- and rubble-coped rubble, buttressed to the north, with pyramidally-coped square-section ashlar gatepiers to the south.

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