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Manse of Ord, Strathord, Banff

Description: Manse of Ord, Strathord

Category: C(S)
Date Listed: 15 February 1982
Historic Scotland Building ID: 6660

OS Grid Coordinates: 362248, 858447
Latitude/Longitude: 57.6144, -2.6335

Location: B9025, Aberdeenshire AB45 3BD

Locality: Banff
County: Aberdeenshire
Country: Scotland
Postcode: AB45 3BD

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Listing Text

1835-6 with late 19th century wing, 2 storey L-plan house of irregular cruciform plan. Harled, tooled granite margins. Original E facing symmetrically fronted 3-bay house with shallow 2-storey rear wing. Original frontage largely masked by 2-storey wing with ground floor drawing room lit by bipartite in E gable. Wide main doorway in re-entrant angle. 4- and 12-pane glazing; coped end and wallhead stacks; slate roofs.
INTERIOR: late 19th century staircase; simple cornice to ground floor drawing room.

References:
NEW STATISTICAL ACCOUNT 13 (1836), p.38.

Notes:
Former Church of Scotland manse: though re-named Strathord, by local custom the house retains its original title. Former steading now converted as dwelling and not included in listing. See also entry for Beechgrove (former Ord Church).

Source: Historic Scotland

Listed building text is © Crown Copyright. Reproduced under licence: PSI Click-use licence number C2008002006.



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