Melville Manse, Backdykes, Anstruther Easter is a Grade A listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 May 1972. Manse.

Melville Manse, Backdykes, Anstruther Easter

WRENN ID: forbidden-transept-umber
Grade: A
Local Planning Authority: Fife
Country: Scotland
Date first listed: 9 May 1972
Type: Manse
Source: Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

1590, originally 3-storey L-plan, now Z-plan (extended 1753, further addition 1864). Harled with margins, crowstepped, jamb of 1590 house inscribed "THE WATCH TOWER" 4-storey corbelled out at 1st floor corbelled stair turret in re-entrant angle, crowstepped gable; timber work renewed 1779, interior re-finished 1798, pitches of roof at dormer heads evidently modified at those dates. Contemporary garden walls.

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