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Latitude: 56.2232 / 56°13'23"N
Longitude: -2.6982 / 2°41'53"W
OS Eastings: 356805
OS Northings: 703625
OS Grid: NO568036
Mapcode National: GBR 2V.CZQM
Mapcode Global: WH7SM.JVC2
Plus Code: 9C8V68F2+7P
Entry Name: Melville Manse, Backdykes, Anstruther Easter
Listing Name: The Manse, Backdykes Anstruther Easter (Including Garden Walls)
Listing Date: 9 May 1972
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 380778
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB36072
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200380778
Location: Kilrenny
County: Fife
Town: Kilrenny
Electoral Ward: East Neuk and Landward
Traditional County: Fife
Tagged with: Manse
1590, originally 3-storey L-plan, now Z-plan (extended 1753, further addition 1864). Harled with margins, crowstepped, jamb of 1590 house inscribed "THE WATCH TOWER" 4-storey corbelled out at 1st floor corbelled stair turret in re-entrant angle, crowstepped gable; timber work renewed 1779, interior re-finished 1798, pitches of roof at dormer heads evidently modified at those dates. Contemporary garden walls.
Built for James Melville. Probably the oldest inhabited manse in Scotland.
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