Rear Range, Steading, Coldstone Manse is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 November 1980. 1 related planning application.
Rear Range, Steading, Coldstone Manse
- WRENN ID
- night-chimney-gilt
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 November 1980
- Address
- Rear Range, Steading, Coldstone Manse, AB34 5NP
- OS grid reference
- NJ 430 055
- Coordinates
- 57.13766, -2.94204
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The property comprises a rear range, steading, and walled garden associated with Coldstone Manse, dating to 1783 with a porch added in 1826. Originally Kirklands of Coldstone, the house is a two-storey, three-bay, partial double-pile, M-gabled former manse. It is constructed of harled granite with a regular fenestration pattern.
The south elevation has three bays with regular fenestration. A prominent, shouldered, gabled porch is centrally positioned, featuring a timber-panelled door and a letterbox fanlight. There are canted roof dormers with piended roofs. The north elevation features an advanced gabled bay to the centre left, with a cheese press built into the wall flush with the west elevation. To the right is a return of the west M-gable. The east side elevation has a two-bay gable and a single-storey timber lean-to outhouse. The west side elevation is a four-bay M-gable. Sash and case windows with four panes are present throughout. The roof is covered in grey slates with lead flashing, and includes scrolled skewputts, coped skews, and gable stacks. The interior was not inspected in 2002.
The steading is a single-storey, seven-bay, E-plan, gabled structure, exhibiting predominantly regular fenestration including numerous cartshed openings. It is constructed of squared granite courses with grey slate roofing, lead flashing, and coped skews. A semicircular walled garden is located to the rear of the steading and is enclosed by a coped rubble wall.
The house exemplifies a typical late eighteenth-century improvement era building, demonstrating a symmetrical design based on mathematical proportion. While some argue this style arose from a "natural instinct" among Scottish masons, others attribute it to the influence of pattern books. The cheese press built into the rear wall and the walled garden and steading are particularly notable features.
Local climate
Rear Range, Steading, Coldstone Manse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 80 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 57 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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