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Greenloch House

A Category B Listed Building in Mid Galloway and Wigtown West, Dumfries and Galloway

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Coordinates

Latitude: 54.8869 / 54°53'12"N

Longitude: -4.963 / 4°57'46"W

OS Eastings: 210049

OS Northings: 558704

OS Grid: NX100587

Mapcode National: GBR GH3S.RFM

Mapcode Global: WH2SF.QFVH

Plus Code: 9C6QV2PP+QR

Entry Name: Greenloch House

Listing Name: Greenloch House (Formerly Meadowsweet) Including Graveyard, Gatepier and Gate

Listing Date: 20 July 1972

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 342574

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB10161

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200342574

Location: Inch

County: Dumfries and Galloway

Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West

Parish: Inch

Traditional County: Wigtownshire

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Description

Rebuilt 1838. 2-storey, 3-bay near-rectangular plan, former parish manse. Painted harl.

W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: advanced flat-roofed square-plan porch; timber door and letterbox fanlight to right re-entrant angle; single windows to remaining elevations; single windows flank porch at ground; regular fenestration at 1st floor.

E (REAR) ELEVATION: advanced pitched entrance at ground; timber door to right re-entrant angle; lean-to conservatory adjoining; single stair window aligned above; flanking single windows at ground and 1st floors. Blank infill to right of centre window.

N (SIDE) ELEVATION: single windows at ground and 1st floors.

S (SIDE) ELEVATION: blank.

12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof;E pitch of main house concrete tiles stone skews; rooflights; corniced gablehead stacks; polygonal cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1999.

GRAVEYARD, GATEPIER AND GATE: elaborately carved gravestones dating from the 17th century to the E of the house; single iron gatepier and gate to entrance drive.

Statement of Interest

On site of Soulseat Abbey (Premonstratensian), founded in 1148 and destroyed in the 17th century. Additional ancillary structures to E not included in the listing. Marked as manse on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1848, serving the Parish Kirk at Lochinch. The house name has also been changed from Meadowsweet to Greenloch, a modern house nearby now has the name Meadowsweet.

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