Former Wilton Parish Manse, 6 And 7 Mansfield Square is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 November 2008. House.

Former Wilton Parish Manse, 6 And 7 Mansfield Square

WRENN ID
sacred-step-peregrine
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Constituency
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
18 November 2008
Type
House
OS grid reference
NT 506 153
Coordinates
55.42978, -2.78058
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Former Wilton Parish Manse, located at 6 and 7 Mansfield Square, was built in 1847 by John and Thomas Smith. This two-storey, three-bay building features an irregular plan and is designed in a Jacobean style. It has a prominent gable with a finial, finialled gabled dormers that break the eaves, and gablehead stacks. The front and west side are constructed of squared, coursed whinstone, while the rear and east side are made of whinstone rubble, with painted ashlar dressings throughout. The building has a deep base course and an eaves cornice, with chamfered window margins on the principal south and west elevations.

The principal south elevation has a three-bay layout, featuring a four-panel central door with a rectangular fanlight set within a corniced, corbelled architrave. To the right, there is an advanced bay with a canted window on the ground floor and a hoodmoulded window above. The west elevation has two bays, with a slightly advanced stack on the right gable and a slightly projecting tripartite stone-mullioned window on the ground floor to the left, along with a dormer above. The east elevation displays irregular fenestration, including a door to the left of the advanced, gabled centre bay, a side door to the right, and an advanced, flat-roofed, single-storey wing on the outer right. The rear (north) elevation also has irregular fenestration, featuring a stone mullion for a bipartite window that turns the corner of the advanced, gabled left bay.

The windows predominantly have 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case styles, with lying-pane glazing in the timber sash and case windows of the canted window. The roof is covered in grey slate with metal ridges, and the skews are ashlar-coped with kneelers. The corniced whinstone stacks have circular clay cans, and there are cast-iron rainwater goods.

Inside, the manse retains some working timber-panelled shutters and cornices. There is a stone stair leading to the upper flats, featuring cast-iron balusters with a timber handrail on the landing.

Local climate

Former Wilton Parish Manse, 6 And 7 Mansfield Square sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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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