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The Manse, Main Street, Kirk Yetholm

A Category C Listed Building in Kelso and District, Scottish Borders

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.5454 / 55°32'43"N

Longitude: -2.2784 / 2°16'42"W

OS Eastings: 382530

OS Northings: 627996

OS Grid: NT825279

Mapcode National: GBR D4J9.JZ

Mapcode Global: WH8Y7.ZW67

Plus Code: 9C7VGPWC+4J

Entry Name: The Manse, Main Street, Kirk Yetholm

Listing Name: Main Street, the Manse Including Boundary Walls

Listing Date: 29 November 1993

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 348980

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB15399

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200348980

Location: Yetholm

County: Scottish Borders

Electoral Ward: Kelso and District

Parish: Yetholm

Traditional County: Roxburghshire

Tagged with: Manse

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Description

1788, reworked in 19th century. 2-storey, 3-bay L-plan former manse. Harled with raised polished sandstone margins. Crowstepped gables.

SW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 3-bay; crowstepped gabled porch to centre; window to SW, doorway on return to right, boarded door, 3-pane fanlight; blinded doorway on return to left; window at 1st floor behind. Tripartite windows in bay to outer left. Single windows in bay to outer right.

NW ELEVATION: 4-bay. Single windows to each bay; 2 advanced gabled bays to outer right.

SE ELEVATION: doorway at re-entrant angle; panelled door; plate glass fanlight; round-arched stairwindow in overhanging panel above. Single windows irregularly disposed in recessed range to right. Advanced gabled bay to outer left; French window off-set to left at ground; single window at 1st floor above; window off-set to right at ground; single windows at ground and 1st floor on return to right.

NE ELEVATION: single storey outhouses adjoining gabled bay; window off-set to left at 1st floor.

Small pane sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; coped gablehead stacks; beak skewputts.

OUTHOUSES: T-plan ranges of harled single storey outhouses adjoining house. Detached pitched-roof garage to NE.

BOUNDARY WALLS: squared and snecked whinstone boundary walls and quadrant walls to gateway.

Statement of Interest

The NSA gives the date of the Manse as 1788. The Manse was restored in 1981, removing Victorian dormers from the attic and replacing astragals. According to Heritors' Records of 1831 the new minister, Mr Baird, needed to stay at Yetholm Hall whilst improvement to the Manse were carried out by Mr Angus, architect in Edinburgh.

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