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Latitude: 55.1274 / 55°7'38"N
Longitude: -3.6478 / 3°38'52"W
OS Eastings: 295026
OS Northings: 582691
OS Grid: NX950826
Mapcode National: GBR 29Z4.1R
Mapcode Global: WH5W9.YD32
Plus Code: 9C7R49G2+XV
Entry Name: Cowhill House
Listing Name: Cowhill House Tower House Addition
Listing Date: 3 August 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 342608
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB10196
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200342608
Location: Holywood
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Lochar
Parish: Holywood
Traditional County: Dumfriesshire
Tagged with: House
Peddie & Forbes Smith, architects. Dated 1914. 4-storey and
attic rectangular-plan full-size "tower house" added to east
end of Cowhill house. Tower house: roughly-coursed polygonal
red masonry with ashlar dressings and roll-moulded openings,
these mostly beneath relieving arches. Door at south of east
wall with crest above. Irregularly-placed window openings to
elevations, all small-paned sashes. Corbelled and crenellated
parapet with spouts and bartizans (1 conical-roofed) encloses
east gable; crow-stepped gables; coped end and north
wall-head stacks. 2 lower square bays each with south-facing crow-stepped gables 1 on west wall, 1 projecting from south
wall.
Interior: wooden panelling at ground with Corinthian
pilasters; some decorative ceiling plasterwork and chimney
pieces. Wheel stair opens into earlier house.
Remainder of house now substantially altered from original
and not included in listing. 1906 plans for tower re-designed
1914; 1871 scheme by W.F. Lyon.
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