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Latitude: 55.0649 / 55°3'53"N
Longitude: -3.6073 / 3°36'26"W
OS Eastings: 297448
OS Northings: 575667
OS Grid: NX974756
Mapcode National: GBR 397W.T6
Mapcode Global: WH5WJ.KYGL
Plus Code: 9C7R397V+W3
Entry Name: Moorhead's Hospital, 103-107 St Michael Street, Dumfries
Listing Name: 103, 105, 107 St Michael's Street, Moorhead's Hospital
Listing Date: 6 March 1981
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 362948
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB26339
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Dumfries, 103-107 St Michael Street, Moorhead's Hospital
ID on this website: 200362948
Location: Dumfries
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Town: Dumfries
Electoral Ward: Nith
Traditional County: Dumfriesshire
Tagged with: Hospital building
James Harley and Alexander Crombie, contractors. Built 1751-3
as paupers' hospital. 2 storeys off-set above basement;
symmetrical H-plan with 3-bay centre, advanced single outer
bays. Painted render and contrasting ashlar margins.
Principal E elevation with rusticated central doorway
(modern door), approached by steps, shaped panel above linked
to 1st floor cill of (?enlarged) timber-mullioned tripartite.
Plate glass sash windows; eaves/lintel band; cornice; pair
massive axial stacks; open-worked timber axial ventilator;
slated pavilion roofs.
Rear addition.
Endowed by brothers James and William Moorhead. Plan agreed
2.4.1751; contract approved 7.5.1751.
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