Old Parish Church Manse, 3 Manse Road, Nairn is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 March 1981. Manse. 1 related planning application.
Old Parish Church Manse, 3 Manse Road, Nairn
- WRENN ID
- knotted-cinder-pigeon
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1981
- Type
- Manse
- Address
- Old Parish Church Manse, 3 Manse Road, Nairn, IV12 4RN
- OS grid reference
- NH 878 564
- Coordinates
- 57.58375, -3.87715
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Old Parish Church Manse, built in 1898 by William Mackintosh, is a Gothic-style building located at 3 Manse Road in Nairn. It features two storeys and an asymmetrical three-bay facade facing the street to the west, with a projecting square crenellated porch on the south elevation. The exterior is constructed of snecked rubble with polished ashlar dressings.
On the west elevation, there is a square bay window on the ground floor to the right, which has a cusped balustrade. Above this, a tripartite window is set with a relieving arch and a gabled head. The left side of the facade includes a two-storey canted window within a wide gabled bay that has a crenellated parapet and stone gable head finials. A corbelled parapet and a corner turret, supported by an engaged column, project over the ground floor and are topped with a conical fishscale slate roof.
Many of the windows feature cusped upper lights and are designed with mullions and transoms. The building has a slate roof adorned with a decorative tile ridge, and there is a low coped rubble garden wall surrounding the property.
Local climate
Old Parish Church Manse, 3 Manse Road, Nairn receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 41 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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