Manse, Torbeg, Shiskine, Arran is a Grade B listed building in the North Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 August 1995. Manse.

Manse, Torbeg, Shiskine, Arran

WRENN ID
riven-rood-thistle
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
North Ayrshire
Constituency
North Ayrshire and Arran MP: Irene Campbell (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
8 August 1995
Type
Manse
OS grid reference
NR 900 300
Coordinates
55.51935, -5.32689
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Manse in Torbeg, Shiskine, Arran, is an earlier 19th-century building that originally served as a manse. It is a two-storey, three-bay structure with a rectangular plan and features a single-storey pentice-roofed bay at the rear. The exterior is made of rough cast red sandstone rubble, with an earlier harl finish on the rear elevation, and is adorned with tooled and painted ashlar dressings. The roof is slate-covered. The building includes a base course, margined angles, an eaves course, and ashlar-coped skews with coped end stacks and uniform cream cans. The windows are margined and feature 12-pane timber sash and case frames.

On the front elevation, there is a panelled door with an astragalled fanlight at the centre, framed by a corniced and pilastered doorpiece. To the left and right of the door, there are windows, and three additional windows are located on the first floor. There is also a window on the right return gable.

The rear elevation includes a pentice-roofed bay on the left side, which has two doors and windows, along with a window on the right that has a modern out-of-character frame. A small stair window is located at the centre of the first floor, with additional windows to the left and right.

The interior has not been seen.

Local climate

Manse, Torbeg, Shiskine, Arran sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,500 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It averages fewer than one freeze-thaw cycle a year. 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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