Manse, Contin is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 March 1971. Manse.
Manse, Contin
- WRENN ID
- dusk-pilaster-root
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1971
- Type
- Manse
- OS grid reference
- NH 457 556
- Coordinates
- 57.56452, -4.58055
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Manse in Contin is a 2-storey, 3-bay house built in 1794, with repairs and additions made by George Angus in 1829, further repairs in 1844, and alterations by W.C. Joass in 1894. The exterior is harled with tooled ashlar margins, featuring a 1794 frontage that includes a central door highlighted by a projecting gabled porch added in 1894, which has a side entrance and a later side light. The house has three dormers in large gablets, with a central stack and renewed end stacks, all dating from 1894.
At the rear, there is a parallel wing from 1829 that appears as a double pile on the west side, which contains a first-floor drawing room with a coved ceiling that has since been divided. A further wing, added in 1894, extends north and presents an east-facing, 2-storey, 4-bay frontage. This includes one single window and one bipartite window that rise into gabletted dormers similar to those on the south front. The windows feature 12-pane glazing, and the house has corniced end and ridge stacks, mostly renewed or originating from 1894, topped with slate roofs.
Local climate
Manse, Contin sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,240 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 65 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 48 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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