Coull Parish Church Manse

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 25/11/1980 Local Authority Aberdeenshire Planning Authority Aberdeenshire Parish Coull NGR NJ 51215 02554 Coordinates 351215, 802554 — 1832. 2-storey, 3-bay, rectangular-plan, gabled former manse. Harled, squared and tooled granite. Base course, eaves course, plain quoins and margins to openings. Regular fenestration. W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 2-storey, 3-bay, regular fenestation; letterbox fanlight over timber panelled door. E (REAR) ELEVATION: 2-storey, advanced semicircular stair turret with piended roof breaking eaves to centre, flanked by small\piended roof dormers. Single storey, 3-bay, harled and slated, gabled addition to right with tall chimney stack to end gable. N (SIDE) ELEVATION: gable end with windows to outer bays of ground floor. S (SIDE) ELEVATION: blank gable end. INTERIOR: typical symmetrical internal plan with reception rooms flanking the entrance hall and lobby withan elegant turned stone stair case to the rear. Flagged floor to hall and lobby. Fine quality timber skirting, door and window frames and panelled doors. Plain cornice plaster work to principal rooms. 12-pane, timber-framed, sash and case windows. Grey slates, lead flashing. Coped skews and chimney stacks to gable ends. WALLED GARDEN INCORPORATING BEE BOLE: rectangular walled garden to rear (W) and side (S) of house. High, coped rubble wall incorporating rectangular stone lined bee bole to N side. — Formerly listed as 'The Old Manse'. The semicircular stair turret to the rear and fine interior woodwork suggest similar builders to Corrachree House, Tarland (see separate listing). Church Heritors Records indicate that the existing clay built manse was decaying and a new manse were approved by a Mr Brebner, a Heritor. Plans for the new manse were sent to the Heritors by

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.