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Latitude: 55.3061 / 55°18'21"N
Longitude: -3.8041 / 3°48'14"W
OS Eastings: 285577
OS Northings: 602811
OS Grid: NS855028
Mapcode National: GBR 17W2.7R
Mapcode Global: WH5V8.JWRP
Plus Code: 9C7R854W+C9
Entry Name: Sweetbit
Listing Name: Sweetbit Farmhouse and Steading
Listing Date: 3 August 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 335021
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB3860
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200335021
Location: Durisdeer
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Mid and Upper Nithsdale
Parish: Durisdeer
Traditional County: Dumfriesshire
Tagged with: Building
Architect presumably Walter Newall, circa 1830; minor
alterations circa 1853. Single storey and attic, 3-bay
farmhouse at south end of courtyard steading. All
rubble-built with ashlar dressings. Whitewashed.
House: gabled central porch a~d bargeboarded canted dormers
added to south elevation in mid 19th century; sash windows
(mostly 12-pane glazing at ground); straight skews; coped end
stacks.
Steading: (entered from south west corner) asymmetrical
recessed ranges flank house, that to west with 3-bay cartshed
to courtyard; tall north range with barn, some boarded and
glazed openings; roof swept over lean-to in west re-entrant
angle; east and west ranges are plainer. Detached L-plan
range to west with roof partly half-slated.
All roofed with graded slates; steading roofs mostly piended,
with some roof lights and louvered ventilators. Courtyard
partly cobbled.
A variation of Newall's design for Alton (see Loudon,
COTTAGE, FARM AND VILLA, ARCHITECTURE, 1846. pp.456-7).
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