Cromdale Old Church Of Scotland Manse is a Grade B listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 January 1971. Manse.

Cromdale Old Church Of Scotland Manse

WRENN ID
south-pewter-evening
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Cairngorms National Park
Constituency
Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
26 January 1971
Type
Manse
OS grid reference
NJ 068 289
Coordinates
57.34106, -3.5498
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Cromdale Old Church of Scotland Manse is a substantial house built in 1834, featuring two stories and an attic, with a wide three-bay south-facing facade. The exterior is harled and has tooled grey granite dressings and margins.

The entrance is marked by a central doorpiece with cornicing and pilasters, leading to a double leaf panelled door. There are two modern flat roof dormers, and the gables are symmetrical with two bays, one of which has a blind window on the east side. The rear of the house is also symmetrical and includes a later central stair window with late 19th-century coloured glazing. At the back, there is a U-plan single storey range of offices.

The windows feature 12-pane glazing, and there are two corniced stacks at the center of the roof, which is covered with piended slate.

Inside, there is little of interest remaining, but a semi-circular staircase at the rear has slender wood balusters.

Additionally, there is a single storey L-plan steading at the rear, constructed of harl pointed rubble with a slate roof.

The property is accessed through a pair of plain tooled granite ashlar gate piers, which have flanking pedestrian entrances and piers topped with shallow pyramidal caps. The entrance is completed with a pair of spearhead cast-iron carriage gates and matching pedestrian gates.

Local climate

Cromdale Old Church Of Scotland Manse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 77 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 58 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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