Kirkburn House, former Manse, Ettrick is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 June 2003. Manse.
Kirkburn House, former Manse, Ettrick
- WRENN ID
- tattered-mortar-hyssop
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 23 June 2003
- Type
- Manse
- OS grid reference
- NT 260 145
- Coordinates
- 55.41916, -3.17022
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Kirkburn House, a former manse, dates from the early 19th century and is a two-storey, three-bay building with single-storey offices at the rear. The exterior is limewashed with stone margins and features stone mullions.
The south elevation has a prominent polygonal-roofed canted bay at the center, which includes a canted window at ground level. To the right, there is a panelled timber door, and to the left, a single window. The first floor jetties out and has a canted window with narrow windows on each return. The flanking bays each contain a single window on both floors and a small dormer window.
On the west elevation, there is a broad gabled bay to the right with a window on each floor at the outer left and a gablehead stack. The lower bays to the left have asymmetrical fenestration.
The east elevation mirrors the gabled bay on the west, with windows on the left at ground level and on the right at first floor. The lower bays to the right include a door, a small window in the center, and a bipartite window to the left, with another gabled bay on the outer right.
The north elevation features a variety of elements, including lower advanced gables and a panelled timber door leading to a piended projection on the right.
The building has timber sash and case windows with 4-, 8-, and 12-pane glazing patterns. It is topped with graded grey slates and has coped limewashed stacks with cans.
Surrounding the property are coped rubble boundary walls with ball-finialled circular rubble gatepiers and two-leaf ironwork gates.
Local climate
Kirkburn House, former Manse, Ettrick sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 72 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 48 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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