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Dumfries Youth Club, 29 Irish Street, Dumfries

A Category A Listed Building in Dumfries, Dumfries and Galloway

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.0663 / 55°3'58"N

Longitude: -3.6108 / 3°36'38"W

OS Eastings: 297229

OS Northings: 575838

OS Grid: NX972758

Mapcode National: GBR 397V.2N

Mapcode Global: WH5WJ.HXSF

Plus Code: 9C7R398Q+GM

Entry Name: Dumfries Youth Club, 29 Irish Street, Dumfries

Listing Name: 29 Irish Street and 92 Whitesands Including Garden and Courtyard Walls, Outbuildings and Gatepiers

Listing Date: 11 July 1961

Category: A

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 362785

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB26240

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Dumfries, 29 Irish Street, Dumfries Youth Club

ID on this website: 200362785

Location: Dumfries

County: Dumfries and Galloway

Town: Dumfries

Electoral Ward: Nith

Traditional County: Dumfriesshire

Tagged with: Youth centre

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Description

Earlier 18th century. Baroque 2-storey 5-bay town house
with piended shallow-recessed flanking bays (these with
simpler detailing, but seemingly original); raised basement
and attic to Whitesands (W); minor low additions. Set back
from Irish Street behind high garden wall. Renovated by
J M Bowie, 1923. Built of brick with ashlar dressings,
lugged and keystoned architraves and rusticated quoins;
mostly painted, except at W. E elevation: central
rusticated doorway, ashlar shallow-raised panel over linked
to window cill above, 1st floor windows are roughly square
and have bracketted cills; lintels linked to eaves band.
Small-paned sash windows with vertical glazing pattern.
Main cornice; skews; corniced brick end stacks; slated
roof, slightly bell-cast. Low addition linked to recessed
bay right built of painted droved ashlar and with bowed
S-facing bay. W elevation: basement is rubble-built
(containing single long barrel-vaulted room) and with early
steep-gabled central porch (?by Bowie, 1923) built of red
ashlar, stair window above between floors. Plain margined
windows; 2 bipartite dormers.
Interior: some good fielded panelling survives; timber
stair; cornice plasterwork.
Courtyard to W flanked by 2 low outbuildings, screen wall
with central gate to Whitesands, corniced square piers with
pyramidal caps.

Statement of Interest

Said to have been the town house of the Gilchrists of Speddoch.

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