The Old Manse, Aberlour is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1972.

The Old Manse, Aberlour

WRENN ID
fallen-turret-gorse
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Moray
Constituency
Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
22 February 1972
OS grid reference
NJ 262 426
Coordinates
57.46818, -3.23034
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Old Manse, built by William Robertson between 1837 and 1838, is a symmetrical two-storey house with a raised basement and three bays, facing south. The exterior is harled with tooled grey granite margins and dressings. The central door is accessed by a flight of steps that oversail the raised basement, featuring a cast-iron handrail, though some decorative balusters are missing. The doorway has a bracketed cornice and a rectangular fanlight above.

The house has regular two-bay west and three-bay east return gables, with some blocked windows on the lower first floor, and features 9- and 12-pane glazing. There are two long central stacks and a piended platform roof that is slated with projecting eaves. A later flat-roofed wing has been added to the rear.

Adjacent to the main house are the former stables, which consist of a small two-storey, two-bay rubble structure that abuts the garden slope. The stable entrance is on the ground floor and is approached from the lane, with a loft elevation only at the garden level, topped with a slate roof.

The garden wall is made of harl pointed rubble and is coped, fronting the road. The entrance is flanked by simple square ashlar piers that have shallow pyramidal caps.

Local climate

The Old Manse, Aberlour sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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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