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Latitude: 55.826 / 55°49'33"N
Longitude: -5.0245 / 5°1'28"W
OS Eastings: 210648
OS Northings: 663328
OS Grid: NS106633
Mapcode National: GBR FFZ9.TGS
Mapcode Global: WH1LM.STLM
Plus Code: 9C7PRXGG+96
Entry Name: The Old Manse, Ascog, Bute
Listing Name: Ascog, the Old Manse Including Boundary Wall and Gatepiers
Listing Date: 20 February 1998
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 391759
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB44994
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200391759
Location: Kingarth
County: Argyll and Bute
Electoral Ward: Isle of Bute
Parish: Kingarth
Traditional County: Buteshire
Tagged with: Manse
Mid to later 19th century. Asymmetrical, 2-storey, 3-bay gabled former manse with piended porch recessed to outer left. Harl-pointed rubble sandstone; painted margins; strip quoins. Raised band course at principal floor; overhanging timber eaves; tapering timber finials surmounting gables. Painted render canted window at ground in bay to outer right; projecting cills; lying-pane glazing.
NE (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 3-light canted window at ground in bay to outer right; single window aligned beneath 1st floor apex. Small round-arched window breaking eaves in central bay. Advanced gabled bay to outer left comprising single windows at both floors; 2-leaf timber panelled door set in entrance porch recessed to outer left.
Predominantly 12-pane lying-pane timber sash and case glazing. Graded grey slate roof; replacement rainwater goods. Corniced apex stacks to NW and SE; various octagonal cans.
BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: coped harl-pointed rubble wall to front; stop-chamfered, square-plan painted piers flanking pedestrian entrance (left), vehicular entrance (right); pyramidal caps.
Marked on the 1924 map as the United Free Church manse to the nearby church (see separate list entry for Ascog Church). Still one property, the building has retained its lying-pane glazing, gabled eaves, and 2-leaf timber panelled door.
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