Description

Dated 1883. Rectangular lifeboat house now disused. Single storey and attic, squared pinned rubble with granite quoins, margins and banding detail to flanks and gable heads. Wide double doors to seaward gable, concrete slipway survives. Above door, loft door flanked by pair of decorative cast-iron roundels with maritime symbols that to right dated 1883. Flanks have 3 regularly spaced windows. Pitched slate roofs.

Statement of Interest

Balcary lifeboat station was abandoned soon after it was built in favour of the Kirkcudbright station.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Balcary Lifeboat Station at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17792667

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Recommended Books

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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)