Kilmorack Manse is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971.
Kilmorack Manse
- WRENN ID
- fallow-cobble-rain
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1971
- OS grid reference
- NH 492 443
- Coordinates
- 57.46441, -4.51434
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Kilmorack Manse is a later 18th-century building, substantially enlarged in the mid-19th century. The manse is constructed of whitewashed rubble with ashlar margins. Originally a 2-storey and attic, 3-bay house, it was doubled in size with a wider, 2-storey, 3-bay range, creating a double-gabled dwelling. The later frontage features a centre door within a slightly advanced gabled bay, defined by ashlar margins and with an apex stack to the right. A later ground floor ashlar canted bay window is positioned to the left, along with a later, enlarged bipartite window. Margined flues rise the full height of the east and west gables, terminating in corniced end stacks.
The rear (original) block features paired piended dormers now facing the roof valley. A rear centre projecting gabled stairwell has decorative scroll skewputts. A later entrance with a porch is situated in the west gable. The east return gable has two ground floor and two first floor windows. Most windows are 12-pane sashes, and the roofs are slate-covered.
A single-storey, whitewashed rubble steading range extends to the rear, also with slate roofs.
The manse served as a former Church of Scotland manse, erected during the incumbancy of Rev. John Fraser, Minister of Kilmorack Parish, from 1769 to 1804. References to the manse appear in The Statistical Account and Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae.
Local climate
Kilmorack Manse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 42 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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