The Manse, 18 Manse Place, Aberdour is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 2 May 1973. House. 1 related planning application.
The Manse, 18 Manse Place, Aberdour
- WRENN ID
- white-hall-plover
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 2 May 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Manse, 18 Manse Place, Aberdour, KY3 0TT
- OS grid reference
- NT 190 850
- Coordinates
- 56.05103, -3.30105
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Manse, located at 18 Manse Place in Aberdour, is a former manse designed by Robert Burn in 1803. It is a two-storey house with an attic and a rectangular plan, featuring three bays and single-storey, single-bay wings that are set back from the main structure. The exterior is constructed of coursed rubble with droved long and short margins around the openings and droved quoins. It has a base course, segmental arches above the ground floor windows in the first and third bays, a moulded cornice, and a parapet with a raised central section.
The southeast elevation is symmetrical, with a slightly advanced central entrance bay. It features a centred arched doorway with a corniced and pilastered doorpiece. The first and third bays have rectangular recessed windows, while above the door is a tripartite window, flanked by windows in the outer bays. The single-storey wings on either side are set back and have a centred window.
On the southwest elevation, there is a wing to the left, with a window in the centre and another to the right at ground level, along with a first-floor window to the right and two centred inserted attic windows.
The northwest (rear) elevation has a modern stair tower that advances from the central bay, with a raised centred door and a window above. The original house is set back in the first and third bays, each having a centred ground floor and first-floor window, along with a small inserted ground floor window to the left of the third bay. The flanking single-storey wings are slightly advanced from the original house.
The northeast elevation features a wing to the right and a window to the left, along with two centred inserted attic windows. The main entrance has a modern door with flanking glass panels and a semicircular fanlight above. The windows are predominantly four-pane timber sash and case. The house has two canted, piended dormer windows on the southeast elevation and a pitched grey slate roof. The skews are raised and coped in ashlar, and the gable apex stacks are made of droved ashlar with circular cans. The single-storey wings also have piended grey slate roofs.
Local climate
The Manse, 18 Manse Place, Aberdour receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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