Coull Parish Church Manse is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 November 1980. Manse. 2 related planning applications.
Coull Parish Church Manse
- WRENN ID
- lone-niche-jay
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 November 1980
- Type
- Manse
- Address
- Coull Parish Church Manse, AB34 4TS
- OS grid reference
- NJ 512 025
- Coordinates
- 57.11132, -2.8071
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Coull Parish Church Manse is a former manse built in 1832. It is a two-storey, three-bay building with a rectangular plan and a gabled roof. The exterior is harled with squared and tooled granite, featuring a base course, eaves course, plain quoins, and margins around the openings. The windows are arranged in a regular pattern.
On the west (principal) elevation, the manse has two storeys and three bays with regular fenestration, including a letterbox fanlight above the timber panelled door. The east (rear) elevation features a two-storey, advanced semicircular stair turret with a piended roof that breaks the eaves at the center, flanked by small dormers with piended roofs. To the right, there is a single-storey, three-bay addition that is harled and slated, with a gabled roof and a tall chimney stack at the end gable.
The north (side) elevation has a gable end with windows in the outer bays of the ground floor, while the south (side) elevation is a blank gable end.
Inside, the manse has a typical symmetrical layout with reception rooms on either side of the entrance hall and lobby, which features an elegant turned stone staircase at the rear. The hall and lobby have flagged floors, and there are fine quality timber skirting, door and window frames, and panelled doors. The principal rooms have plain cornice plasterwork.
The windows are 12-pane, timber-framed, sash and case types. The roof is covered with grey slates and has lead flashing, with coped skews and chimney stacks on the gable ends.
Additionally, there is a rectangular walled garden located to the rear and side of the house. This garden is enclosed by a high, coped rubble wall that includes a rectangular stone-lined bee bole on the north side.
Local climate
Coull Parish Church Manse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 73 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 51 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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