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Latitude: 55.1243 / 55°7'27"N
Longitude: -4.1845 / 4°11'4"W
OS Eastings: 260795
OS Northings: 583278
OS Grid: NX607832
Mapcode National: GBR 4V.M8VS
Mapcode Global: WH4TX.PGKJ
Plus Code: 9C7Q4RF8+P5
Entry Name: Barskeoch Mains Farmsteading
Listing Name: Barskeoch Mains
Listing Date: 23 April 1990
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 342024
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB9722
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200342024
Location: Kells
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Dee and Glenkens
Parish: Kells
Traditional County: Kirkcudbrightshire
Tagged with: Farmstead
Single storey cottage probably of 18th century origin now
raised and incorporated into earlier 19th century 2-storey
farmhouse; some reused jambs of 16th/17th century style to
1st floor windows.
Wide 3-bay painted rubble front. Off-centre 20th-century
gabled brick porch. 3 evenly spaced 4-pane sash and case
windows to both floors, additional small window to ground
left. Upper windows with some re-used dressings; roll-moulded
cills or checked back jambs.
Harled rear elevation with 4-pane sash and case windows.
Slate roof, flat skews, sandstone ridge. Coped end stacks
with mainly octagonal cans.
According to local tradition there was a towerhouse near the
site from which the cut stones were taken to build Barskeoch
Mains. The site of Old Barskeoch Castle is not recorded in
the RCAHMS inventories.
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