Building record MAB6043 - ROTHES HOUSE

Former manse, now in residential use and named Rothes House, and a steading, depicted on the 1st and 2nd edition OS maps.

Former manse, now in residential use and named Rothes House, and a steading, depicted on the 1st and 2nd edition OS maps. The manse was built by William Robertson of Elgin in 1839, to a design by John Smith of Aberdeen, and was formerly the manse serving the Rothes Kirk (MAB6005).

It is a two-storey, irregular, three-bay gabled house, constructed from mixed granite rubble with tooled sandstone ashlar dressings. It has a three-bay south front with a projecting gabled bay at the southwest, and a projecting, single-storey, square porch masking the entrance in the re-entrant angle. It has a round-headed doorway and a stepped parapet to the porch. A deeply chamfered southwest angle is at ground floor height only and is faced with tooled ashlar sandstone. A further entrance is in the west garden front, and there is a rear service entrance. The first-floor windows just break the wall head under the gables, with four- and twelve-pane glazing. There are coped end and ridge stacks and slate roofs.

The manse has a simple interior, with a plain, white, marble chimneypiece in the drawing room and plain balusters to the staircase. There are coped rubble garden walls to the west and south. The manse is also known as The Grange. The rear steading and stable range is somewhat modified, with blocked doorways and a garage entrance in the east-facing gable.

Record last edited

Oct 1 2026 8:51PM