Description

Dated 1870 with later alterations and additions. 2-storey, 3-bay house with lower wing to SE set back, with 1st floor windows breaking eaves. Stugged ashlar with polished ashlar dressings to front and NW elevation; squared and snecked sandstone to rear (SE elevation) with modern lean-to addition made of reconstituted some with sunroom to right. Base course, moulded string course between ground and 1st floor. Gabled dormerheads. Stop-chamfered arrises to principal windows.

NE (ABERCORN TERRACE) ELEVATION: 2-leaf panelled door with good brass fittings to centre in key-stoned, consoled and corniced doorpiece with window at 1st floor above. Tripartite window at ground of bay to left with window at 1st floor above. Full-height and gabled canted window in bay to right. Screen wall with boarded door to left; addition to SE with window at 1st floor breaking eaves to centre and inset dormer to right.

NW (ST MARK?S PLACE) ELEVATION: 2 gabled bays with bay to left advanced slightly. Window to each floor to outer left; window at ground of outer left. Window at 1st floor of outer right of bay to right. Gabled corbelled window, angled to W, at 1st floor between bays.

SW ELEVATION: modern addition to centre. Bipartite window at ground with window at 1st floor gabled and breaking eaves in bay to left. Modern sunroom in bay to right with window breaking eaves with gable at 1st floor above. Addition to SE aligned to rear of house.

12-pane and plate glass sash and case windows. Slate roof. Gablehead ashlar stacks to side elevations.

INTERIOR: not seen, 1995.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEWAY: rubble walls with rounded coping. Polished ashlar gateway with shouldered stop-chamfered opening for panelled door. Cornice with semicircular pediment to centre with date and name carved (The Manse 1870).

Statement of Interest

The house was originally built as the manse for St Mark?s Church which is sited to the W, across St Mark?s Place. The house is of a fairly standard type, but is notable due to its fine gateway and eccentric NW elevation.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56630881

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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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