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Latitude: 54.9012 / 54°54'4"N
Longitude: -4.3793 / 4°22'45"W
OS Eastings: 247532
OS Northings: 558864
OS Grid: NX475588
Mapcode National: GBR HHKR.GQK
Mapcode Global: WH3TV.P2TJ
Plus Code: 9C6QWJ2C+F7
Entry Name: Ellangowan Hotel, 2, 4 St John Street, Creetown
Listing Name: Creetown, 2, 4 St John Street, Ellangowan Hotel
Listing Date: 30 January 1991
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 346133
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB13131
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Creetown, 2, 4 St John Street, Ellangowan Hotel
ID on this website: 200346133
Location: Kirkmabreck
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West
Parish: Kirkmabreck
Traditional County: Kirkcudbrightshire
Tagged with: Hotel
George W Webb, architect, inscribed and dated JR 1898. Granite built 2-storey and attic hotel. Main 3-gable front with full-width balcony to 1st over projecting canted timber windows at ground. Squared granite walling with lighter coloured contrasting granite margins. To ground, cast-iron columns support 1st floor balcony and flank entrance to left. Projecting canted windows flank door off centre, 1 to left, 2 to right, outer arched verandahs. To 1st, 6 large paired French windows giving access to balcony with new railings. Each with 3-pane upper part; plate glass glazing. To attic, bipartite casement windows in gableheads; 2-pane lower casements and 3-pane upper parts. Single storey wing to rear. Tall corniced end and stacks; skews to gables; octagonal cans; good graded slate roofs. To rear, mainly bipartite windows to upper floors arranged haphazardly. 3 piended dormers recessed and 1 gabled wallhead dormer. To courtyard, L-plan granite rubble building with 4 wide vehicle entrances to ground, loft door above. To left detached piend-roofed building with 7-bay open front with granite monoliths supporting lintels and roof. Probably used as cartshed/garage.
Barholm Castle is referred to as 'Ellangowan' in Scott's Guy Mannering.
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