Description

Early 19th century with later additions and alterations. 2-storey, 3-bay plain classical house (former Free Church manse) with 2-storey wing at rear; single storey, 2-bay addition to side. Coursed, whitewashed harl; painted dressings. Narrow quoin strips; painted margins; projecting cills. Single storey ancillary structure to NE.

SW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: steps with plain iron balustrades accessing part-glazed timber panelled door centred at ground; 2-pane fanlight; plain ashlar surround with consoled cornice. Single windows flanking at ground; single windows in all bays at 1st floor. Single storey addition to left with part-glazed timber door to left; single window to right.

SE (SIDE) ELEVATION: principal block to left with part-glazed timber door at ground to right; 3-pane fanlight; single window aligned at 1st floor. Full-height wing recessed to right with lean-to porch centred at ground; single windows at both floors in flanking bays.

Predominantly 12-pane modern windows; rooflights. Grey slate roof; stone-coped skews to rear. Coped apex stacks; circular cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1999.

ANCILLARY STRUCTURE: harl-pointed rubble gig-house. Single storey, rectangular-plan block with single storey projection to outer right forming L-plan. SW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 2-leaf boarded timber garage door to outer left; small window in projecting wing to outer right. Pantiled roof. INTERIOR: not seen 1999.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: coped rubble walls partially enclosing site. Square-plan, stop-chamfered gatepiers flanking pedestrian entrance to W; finialled caps; gate missing. Square-plan gatepiers flanking vehicular entrance to E; corniced, pyramidal caps; gate missing.

Statement of Interest

Side addition erected July 1999. Noted in the OS Name Book as "...a modern built house in good repair with a garden and ornamental grounds attached. It was occupied as an inn...but is now the Free Church manse...occupied by the officiating minister, Rev. A Spence." A good example of a traditional type which, although its genuine character has suffered with the non-traditional window form and materials and dominant rooflights, retains the less easily reversible essentials and a good gig-house. The Free Church with which the house was once associated is no longer in place (see 1858 OS map).

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q77776059

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)