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Latitude: 55.3119 / 55°18'42"N
Longitude: -3.2066 / 3°12'23"W
OS Eastings: 323510
OS Northings: 602638
OS Grid: NT235026
Mapcode National: GBR 6710.KN
Mapcode Global: WH6WP.QR77
Plus Code: 9C7R8Q6V+P8
Entry Name: Main Block, Eskdalemuir Observatory
Listing Name: Eskdalemuir Observatory Main Block (Office)
Listing Date: 12 July 1988
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 342090
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB9775
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Eskdalemuir Observatory, Main Block
ID on this website: 200342090
Location: Eskdalemuir
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Annandale East and Eskdale
Parish: Eskdalemuir
Traditional County: Dumfriesshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
W T Oldrieve. Built 1904-8. Observatory office and
laboratory. 2-storeys, basement to E above slope. Arts and Crafts movement, gables with skews run horizontally over eaves. Roughly Roughly-coursed and squared whinstone with long and short worked dressings and quoins, most windows segmentally-arched with
contrasting voussoirs. Basically H-plan; long 5-bay inner range
has Westmost bay carried upwards above main roof level and has full-depth viewing platform, lean-to porch at foot to both
elevations. Shaped gutter brackets; slate roofs.
INTERIOR: many important and early scientific instruments,
several still in use; timber stairs have battered newels with
projecting caps; upper hall in inner range with exposed
plain timber roof.
Instruments include a fortin barometer, a float barograph
and a synchronome.
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