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Alma House, 17 Mill Street, Dalbeattie

A Category B Listed Building in Dalbeattie, Dumfries and Galloway

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Coordinates

Latitude: 54.9328 / 54°55'58"N

Longitude: -3.8209 / 3°49'15"W

OS Eastings: 283426

OS Northings: 561309

OS Grid: NX834613

Mapcode National: GBR 1CRD.LJ

Mapcode Global: WH5X6.88SS

Plus Code: 9C6RW5MH+4J

Entry Name: Alma House, 17 Mill Street, Dalbeattie

Listing Name: 17 Mill Street; Alma House, and Gatepiers

Listing Date: 4 November 1971

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 360223

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB24316

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Dalbeattie, 17 Mill Street, Alma House

ID on this website: 200360223

Location: Dalbeattie

County: Dumfries and Galloway

Town: Dalbeattie

Electoral Ward: Abbey

Traditional County: Kirkcudbrightshire

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Description

Mid 19th century. 3-bay house with single-storey 1-bay block
to right with 3-storey, Italianate tower above. Full-height
wing to rear. Coursed snecked granite with painted ashlar
dressings and smooth rusticated quoins.
Central architraved with moulded consoles supporting
pediment.
Tripartite vestibule door with acid etched glass. All windows
with raised margins; consoled and corniced to ground; all
single light with aluminium framed 2-pane glazing.
To right slender 3-storey tower rises from wider
single-storey bay to ground. Tower with round-arched windows
to 2nd and bipartites to 3rd floor.
Plain eaves, piended slate roofs. Tower with bracketted eaves
and finial.
3-bay, 2-storey rear elevation of roughly coursed granite.
Canted window to left at ground floor only. Tall corniced
stacks, piended slate roofs.
Low granite boundary wall to garden with pair of tall square
granite gatepiers with ball finials; good cast-iron gates.

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