Archaeology Notes

Event ID 689574

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO50SE 15 56805 03625.

(NO 5680 0362) Manse (NR)

OS 25" map (1966)

This manse was built in 1590-1 for the then minister, James Melville. Originally, it was on the L-plan, but the main block was extended to the W in the 17th century, making it T-shaped, with a narrow, corbelled stair-turret in the re-entrant. The main block is three-storeyed. The gable of the wing bears, high up, a panel inscribed "THE WATCH TOWR" (sic). The walls are harled, with dressed stone margins to the windows, some of which have been enlarged.

RCAHMS 1933, visited 1927; N Tranter 1963

The manse appears to be as described but is currently boarded up and lies in a high-walled garden with locked gates.

Visited by OS (JP) 29 May 1974