Boundary Walls And Railings, Manor House Including Summerhouse, Skene Street

Designed by Alexander Marshall Mackenzie and dating from 1905, the Manor House is a single and two-storey, five-bay, mock half-timbered house set-back from street frontage with a fine little-altered interior and located at heart of Macduff. Timber verandah, unusual glazing pattern to leaded diamond-paned casement windows set in timber frames, and jettied, mock half-timbered gableheads. Rubble with concrete render inset with regularly-sized river pebbles; pink Turriff sand render over granite at rear. Timber margins, transoms and mullions.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: principal southwest elevation with gabled, symmetrical two-storey centre bays comprising advanced centre with two-leaf panelled timber door, flanking lights and further lights to returns, first floor with mock half-timbering below full-width, 8-light, square-plan, transomed window; flanking bays each with four-light transomed window at each floor and plain-balustered verandah on square columns. Lower, gabled bay with three-light transomed window to outer right, and lean-to garage (on site of former conservatory) at outer left. Boiler room to northwest incorporates pedimented doorway dated 1872 from former cottage on site.

Leaded glazing to upper lights and some lower lights of transomed windows at southwest, all in timber casement windows; replacement uPVC glazing elsewhere. Rosemary tiles and grey slates. Stacks of concrete render with inset pebbles with full complement of clay cans. Plain bargeboarding.

INTERIOR: much original detail retained including fine joinery work to stairhall screen and fire surrounds; some plasterwork cornicing. Timber dado panelling to music room; plasterwork dado panelling painted as timber at staircase and drawing room. Timber dog-leg staircase with carved balusters. Leaded windows with decorative ironwork handles.

SUMMERHOUSE: rustic timber summerhouse retaining leaded glazing with decorative coloured glazing in shaped light and plain bargeboarding. Interior retains bench seats, hessian and decorated cloth wall coverings and makers plate stamped 'Caesar'.

BOUNDARY WALL AND RAILINGS: semicircular-coped rubble boundary walls; stepped with inset railings to southwest.