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Latitude: 54.8638 / 54°51'49"N
Longitude: -4.1739 / 4°10'26"W
OS Eastings: 260570
OS Northings: 554278
OS Grid: NX605542
Mapcode National: GBR JH2V.DT2
Mapcode Global: WH4W8.V0LN
Plus Code: 9C6QVR7G+GC
Entry Name: The Temple, Cally House Policies
Listing Name: The Temple, (Cally Estate)
Listing Date: 28 May 1981
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 342178
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB9851
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Cally House Policies, The Temple
ID on this website: 200342178
Location: Girthon
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Dee and Glenkens
Parish: Girthon
Traditional County: Kirkcudbrightshire
Tagged with: Folly
Late 18th century. Ornamental cottage, square plan 2-storey mock Gothic tower now roofless. Squared rubble walling with granite quoins, band courses over floors, angle buttresses to ground floor.
Pointed arch openings, tripartite doorway with flanking lancet sidelights, Y-tracery over door. Bipartite window over door. External flight of steps to 1st floor chamber. Both ground and 1st floor chambers have plain chimneypieces. Band course over 1st, embattled parapet.
Part of Cally Estate B group. The temple forms part of the Cally Estate designed landscape. It is marked on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map as The Temple. These type of ornamental structures are associated with the Romantic movement of the late 18th/early 19th century and the Gothic style was particularly popular. They added intrigue and interest to the landscape.
Owned by Forestry Commission Scotland.
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