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Melville Manse, Backdykes, Anstruther Easter

A Category A Listed Building in Kilrenny, Fife

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.2232 / 56°13'23"N

Longitude: -2.6982 / 2°41'53"W

OS Eastings: 356805

OS Northings: 703625

OS Grid: NO568036

Mapcode National: GBR 2V.CZQM

Mapcode Global: WH7SM.JVC2

Plus Code: 9C8V68F2+7P

Entry Name: Melville Manse, Backdykes, Anstruther Easter

Listing Name: The Manse, Backdykes Anstruther Easter (Including Garden Walls)

Listing Date: 9 May 1972

Category: A

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 380778

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB36072

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Anstruther Easter, Backdykes, Melville Manse

ID on this website: 200380778

Location: Kilrenny

County: Fife

Town: Kilrenny

Electoral Ward: East Neuk and Landward

Traditional County: Fife

Tagged with: Manse

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Description

1590, originally 3-storey L-plan, now Z-plan (extended 1753, further addition 1864). Harled with margins, crowstepped, jamb of 1590 house inscribed "THE WATCH TOWER" 4-storey corbelled out at 1st floor corbelled stair turret in re-entrant angle, crowstepped gable; timber work renewed 1779, interior re-finished 1798, pitches of roof at dormer heads evidently modified at those dates. Contemporary garden walls.

Statement of Interest

Built for James Melville. Probably the oldest inhabited manse in Scotland.

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