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Rockville, 49 Main Street, Portpatrick

A Category B Listed Building in Portpatrick, Dumfries and Galloway

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Coordinates

Latitude: 54.8421 / 54°50'31"N

Longitude: -5.1165 / 5°6'59"W

OS Eastings: 199985

OS Northings: 554149

OS Grid: NW999541

Mapcode National: GBR FHRX.741

Mapcode Global: WH1RF.CKTB

Plus Code: 9C6PRVRM+RC

Entry Name: Rockville, 49 Main Street, Portpatrick

Listing Name: 49 Main Street, Rockville Including Boundary Walls

Listing Date: 20 July 1972

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 350548

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB16748

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Portpatrick, 49 Main Street, Rockville

ID on this website: 200350548

Location: Portpatrick

County: Dumfries and Galloway

Electoral Ward: Stranraer and the Rhins

Parish: Portpatrick

Traditional County: Wigtownshire

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Description

1765. 2-storey with basement and attic, 3-bay rectangular-plan house. Painted render to SE and SW elevations, exposed rubble to NW elevation. Margins to windows.

SE (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: steps to central advanced, pedimented bay, oversailing/bridging basement recess; pilastered doorpiece with consoled cornice; 4-panel timber door with small ogee-headed panes to fanlight; basement window to right; single window at 1st floor; oculus to tympanum. Flanking single windows to basement, ground and 1st floor of recessed bays (no basement window to right).

NW (REAR) ELEVATION: regular fenestration to all floors, (windows at basement and ground floor to outer right infilled). Small window at attic to base of wallhead stack.

SW ELEVATION: 2 small adjoining outbuildings at basement, lean to to outer left, gabled entrance to outer right; 2 single windows at ground floor; single window to right at 1st floor; 2 small single windows at attic.

4-pane timber sash and case windows to SE and SW, 9-and 12-pane to NW; rooflight to NW. Grey slate roof; stone skews; square skewputts; corniced gablehead stacks, central wallhead stack to NW; circular cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1997.

BOUNDARY WALLS: coped painted rubble boundary walls.

Statement of Interest

The house and adjoining property (No 47 Main Street), were built as the Customs Officer's House and offices, on ground feued by James Hunter Blair of Dunskey to the Hon Commissioners of Customs, when Portpatrick was an important packet harbour.

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