Description

Early 19th century. 2-storey, 3-bay, rectangular-plan, manse with single storey flanking offices. Droved, squared yellow sandstone coursers with ashlar sandstone dressings. Base course, cill course, projecting cavetto moulded cornice; corner margins and architraved openings, regular fenestration

SW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 3 stone steps at centre to tall corniced door with slender pilasters flanking, 2-leaf panelled door, 9-light rectangular fanlight; small porch to astragal glazed inner door below semicircular arched fanlight. Eaves height windows to 1st floor.

NE (REAR) ELEVATION: varied and irregular fenestration, door to centre left below letterbox fanlight.

NW (SIDE) ELEVATION: single storey addition to centre right, rectangular-plan, pavilion roof; blocked doorway to centre flanking windows, window to right return.

SE (SIDE) ELEVATION: single storey addition to centre right, rectangular-plan, pavilion roof; window to left, window to left return, window and doorway to right return.

Predominantly 12-pane sash and case windows. Grey slates, lead flashing, skews, moulded coping to gable end stacks, cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: not seen 2001

COACH HOUSE: early 19th century. single storey, rectangular-plan, gabled coach house to rear of manse. Squared yellow sandstone rubble with droved sandstone quoins. Twin 2-leaf boarded carriage doors with strap hinges to SW elevation. Grey slates, skews, cast-iron rainwater goods.

Statement of Interest

Typical late eighteenth/early nineteenth century Scottish manse. The 3-bay, 2-storey manse with small symmetrical single storey wings was a large, refined and comfortable building type developed by the church as a part of "an enlightened policy to induce men of learning and culture to accept charges in the country to serve rural populations remote from centres of teaching". The support or collusion between the church and the local land-owning class is clear here, as elsewhere, where a costly manse and glebe is situated as close to an estate boundary as to the church. In this case the Dalzell estate of the Hamiltons of Dalzell. A relationship between church, state and landowner beloved by the eighteenth century improvers and held up for condemnation by the leaders of the 1843 Disruption in equal measures.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17826421

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Recommended Books

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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990