Kildonan Parish Manse

The Kildonan Parish Manse is a house dating to 1766, with repairs undertaken in 1791 and an additional wing added in the earlier 19th century. Originally a two-story and attic, three-bay house with a central door, it has been altered with the addition of a two-bay projecting wing that obscures the original central door on the south elevation. The house is harled throughout. A late 19th-century canted bay window rises the full height of the outer west bay of the original house, and a further ground-floor canted bay window is located in the east elevation of the later wing. A single-story wing has been added to the west gable. The roof is slate-covered and features three early 19th-century piended dormers and one later 19th-century canted dormer. Most windows have four panes of glass, and there are corniced end stacks. The building is listed for its historical associations, as it was the childhood home of Donald Sage, the author of Memorabilia Domestica, Parish Life in the North of Scotland. Sage’s work describes the house as it appeared around 1800.