Campsie, Old Manse

Old House, Campsie Manse.

In the back yard of the manse at the Clachan of Campsie, a low range of buildings, now used as outhouses, embodies details which seem to suggest a 17th-century date. The range is a single-storeyed, oblong block, measuring 49 ft. by 20 ft. 10 in., and is divided into three compartments by transverse stone partitions. The stonework of the S. front is large squared rubble brought to courses, but the ends seem to have been broken and rebuilt with random rubble. Each division is entered from the S., and each is lit by a window on that side, the central division having also a small window, probably inserted, in the N. wall. The original doorway to the central division is edged with a roll-and-hollow moulding, but the other doors have sharp arrises and appear to be later. The reverse is the case with the windows, the end ones appearing to be old and the middle one an insertion. There are no fireplaces on the ground floor, but high up in the E. partition what looks like a built-up fireplace suggests the former existence of an upper storey or an attic; in that case the present eaves-course, which is wrought with an ogival moulding, may have been lowered when the building was converted to a single storey.

RCAHMS 1963, visited 8 September 1953.

NS67NW 1 6111 7950.

(NS 6111 7950) Old Manse: This was formerly a two-storeyed building, built in 1621. It is now used as a garden store-house. A panel from the manse, dated 1621, is now inserted in the garden wall of the present manse (information from Rev A A Morrison, The Manse, Clachan of Campsie). This now single-storeyed building has been completely modernised, and is void of any early architectural features, except for the doorway in the S wall, which has moulded jambs and lintel. The building is of little archaeological interest.

Visited by OS (J L D) 25 March 1957.