Fasque Parsonage, Fasque House

Fasque Parsonage is a modest estate house, probably dating from the late 18th or early 19th century, which was altered and extended around 1847 to serve as a parsonage for St Andrew's Episcopal Chapel. It stands close to the Mains of Fasque at the south entrance of the Fasque Estate.

The building is constructed of large blocks of squared and coursed rubble with fine Aberdeen bond snecking and ashlar dressings, some of which is droved. It has a base course with chamfered arrises, and keystones over the ground floor south-east window lintels. Cills are projecting and raked, with some bracketed.

The original form was a simple 2-storey, 3-bay house with an axial driveway. Alterations have created a 2-storey building with cellar in an L-plan, comprising a piended main range with two further piended bays at the rear, and a gabled projection at the south-west that links what was formerly a stable ancillary building.

The principal elevation faces south-east and features a modern gabled timber and glass porch masking a 2-leaf vertically-panelled timber door with three panels and a 3-part fanlight. Tall windows occupy the flanking bays, with regular fenestration above. First-floor windows have bracketed projecting cills set close to the eaves. The north-east elevation has a stepped roofline, with fenestration on the left reflecting the principal elevation but with blinded windows at the outer left and a slightly set-back blank bay at the right. The north-west rear elevation has a projecting range at the right and a piened centre bay behind a lean-to entrance. The south-west elevation is broad and piended, with evidence of a former conservatory.

Windows throughout use timber sash and case construction with glazing patterns of 4, 12 and 16 panes. The roof is covered in grey slates with a snow board over the main entrance. Cavetto-coped and shouldered ashlar wallhead stacks rise above the piended ranges, with a coped ashlar gablehead stack and brick stack, all fitted with cans.

Interior detail includes moulded cornices, timber shutters, boarded and panelled timber doors, and timber fire surrounds. A right-angled staircase has plain ironwork balusters with a decorative ironwork newel post and curved handrail.

The building retains its early character in the widely-spaced bays of the principal elevation and the first-floor windows set close to the eaves, together with traditional glazing patterns and good interior details. The 1st edition Ordnance Survey map shows the original L-plan form as part of the Mains of Fasque, whilst the 2nd edition names it 'Fasque Parsonage' and shows the extended building with an extended westerly arm. Although no longer associated with the church or estate, it retains its 19th-century name.

The kitchen area was converted from stabling many years ago, and a curved interior wall to the rear of the central hall indicates the building's evolution. The separately listed St Andrew's Episcopal Chapel at Fasque was built by John Henderson of Edinburgh in 1846-47, which may account for earlier suppositions about the Parsonage's dating; alterations were likely carried out in 1847.

The decorative 2-leaf ironwork gate, comprising a wide vehicular leaf and small pedestrian opening, is identical to that at the nearby, separately listed, Mains of Fasque House.