United Free Church Manse, Gruesey is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 December 1979. Manse.
United Free Church Manse, Gruesey
- WRENN ID
- late-eave-clover
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1979
- Type
- Manse
- OS grid reference
- NX 096 487
- Coordinates
- 54.79716, -4.96215
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The United Free Church Manse in Gruesey was built between 1844 and 1846 and extended in 1889 by Richard Park. This two-storey, three-bay former manse features flanking single-storey wings and is constructed of whitewashed rubble and render, with margins around the openings.
On the east elevation, there is a central doorway with a recessed timber door and a letterbox fanlight above it. A single window is aligned above the door on the first floor, with regular fenestration in the flanking bays and single windows in the single-storey wings.
The south side elevation includes three single windows at ground level and two single windows on the first floor, with an opening at the re-entrant angle leading to the single-storey wing. The west rear elevation has a single casement window on both the ground and first floors. The north side elevation features a doorway at ground level and two windows on the first floor.
The building has four- and twelve-pane timber sash and case windows, a grey slate roof, stone skews, gablehead stacks, and circular cans. The interior was not seen in 1999. Surrounding the site is a low rubble boundary wall, with circular-plan gatepiers to the south.
Local climate
United Free Church Manse, Gruesey sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,230 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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