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Manse of Pitsligo, and associated steading, dating from circa 1770 with a later addition. it is a 2-storey, 3-bay house with yje centre entrance masked by a later 19th century gabled porch. Harled, with tooled ashlar margins, it has regular fenestration in the south front. There is a mid 19th century 2-storey rear wing with piended roof and rear wallhead stacks. Glazing is 12-pane to the old house, 4-pane to the wing. Coped end stacks to main house, and slate roofs. A high rubble walled garden extends west of the house. North of the house is an early 19th century, single storey, U-plan steading of harled rubble, with tooled ashlar margins. The centre bay rises to two storeys, the upper loft served by a central loft door breaking the wallhead under a piended roof of local slate. The manse was the birthplace in 1726 of Hugh Mercer, who graduated in from University of Aberdeen in medicine in 1744, served as assistant surgeon in Charles Stewart's forces at the Battle of Culloden and subsequently left for the New World and died in 1777 at Princeton fighting for American Republicans during the American Revolution.
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