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Latitude: 55.0694 / 55°4'9"N
Longitude: -3.6069 / 3°36'24"W
OS Eastings: 297484
OS Northings: 576171
OS Grid: NX974761
Mapcode National: GBR 397T.XK
Mapcode Global: WH5WJ.KVM3
Plus Code: 9C7R399V+Q6
Entry Name: Dumfries County Buildings, 109, 111 English Street, Dumfries
Listing Name: 109, 111 English Street
Listing Date: 6 March 1981
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 362694
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB26172
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Dumfries, 109, 111 English Street, Dumfries County Buildings
ID on this website: 200362694
Location: Dumfries
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Town: Dumfries
Electoral Ward: Nith
Traditional County: Dumfriesshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
All probably by James Barbour. Former military barracks
circa 1870, range to E (built as stores) by Barbour,
1875. Scottish Baronial. Snecked bull-faced red ashlar
with polished dressings; slate roofs.
Original range: recessed from street; 3 storeys mainly
with bipartites, single 3rd floor windows with
pedimented/crow-stepped dormerheads, chequer-corbelling
stepped between cills; off-centre conical-roofed turret
rises above eaves, door in recessed bay alongside, 3rd
floor window above supported on linking archway and on
main wall-plane. Small-paned sash windows; coped stacks.
Addition: set forward to line of street and with corbelled
parapets; dummy tower house with 2 asymmetrically
corbelled bartisans with linking archway; slightly lower
wing to E corbelled inwards at 1st floor. Coped stacks.
Now part of Regional Council Offices.
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