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Manse, Kirkconnel

A Category B Listed Building in Kirkconnel, Dumfries and Galloway

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.3888 / 55°23'19"N

Longitude: -4.0153 / 4°0'54"W

OS Eastings: 272438

OS Northings: 612384

OS Grid: NS724123

Mapcode National: GBR 06D4.H2

Mapcode Global: WH4SN.9T68

Plus Code: 9C7Q9XQM+GV

Entry Name: Manse, Kirkconnel

Listing Name: Kirkconnel Village, Old Church House (Former Manse)

Listing Date: 15 July 1993

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 346473

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB13345

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200346473

Location: Kirkconnel

County: Dumfries and Galloway

Electoral Ward: Mid and Upper Nithsdale

Parish: Kirkconnel

Traditional County: Dumfriesshire

Tagged with: Manse

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Description

Built as parish manse soon after neighbouring Kilbride parish was suppressed circa 1732, when the Rev Peter Rae was appointed minister. Some alterations. Built mostly of coursed rubble, ashlar detailing; graded slates to roofs. Also outbuildings.

2 storeys 3 bays; square centre porch added late 18th/early 19th century, 1st floor window opening above looks original, and contains sash and case window with 12-pane glazing (of a type similar to that of porch). Windows in outer bays made into bipartites, possibly circa 1840-60, to judge by horizontal glazing pattern surviving top left.

Pair plain, 5-sided dormers. Skews; end stacks. Wings added; low wings on 2 levels recessed on right hand (north) gable, full-height rear wing also at north; semi-circular centre staircase projection at rear. Long and low range of OUTBUILDINGS, also 18th century, part roofless. Pair ashlar GATEPIERS at entrance to driveway, panelled, and corniced; plain iron gates.

Statement of Interest

Rev Perter Rae (1671-1748) is best known as an early provincial printer, as author of a contemporary histoy of the 1715 Rising, and as author of the 'Rae ms' (copy in Ewart Library, Dumfries). For Rae, see references in PSAS 115, 1985, p. 438 note 2.

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