The Manse Of Ord is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 February 1982.
The Manse Of Ord
- WRENN ID
- slow-plaster-kestrel
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 February 1982
- OS grid reference
- NJ 622 584
- Coordinates
- 57.6144, -2.63355
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Manse of Ord is an L-plan house dating from 1835-6, with the addition of a late 19th-century wing. It has an irregular cruciform plan. The house is largely harled, with tooled granite margins. The original east-facing three-bay facade is symmetrical but is now largely obscured by the later two-storey wing, which includes a ground-floor drawing room with a bipartite window in its east gable. A wide main doorway is located in the re-entrant angle of the wings. The windows are a mix of four-pane and twelve-pane sashes. The roof is slate-covered, with coped end and wallhead stacks.
The interior includes a late 19th-century staircase and a simple cornice in the ground-floor drawing room.
Originally a manse for the Church of Scotland, it is known locally as Strathord, though retains its original name. A former steading, now converted into a dwelling, is not included in this listing. Reference should be made to the listing for Beechgrove, the former Ord Church, for related information. The New Statistical Account provides further details (13, 1836, p. 38).
Local climate
The Manse Of Ord receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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