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Latitude: 55.0719 / 55°4'18"N
Longitude: -3.6049 / 3°36'17"W
OS Eastings: 297621
OS Northings: 576450
OS Grid: NX976764
Mapcode National: GBR 398S.CN
Mapcode Global: WH5WJ.LSL5
Plus Code: 9C7R39CW+Q3
Entry Name: Station Hotel, Station Road, Dumfries
Listing Name: Station Road, Station Hotel and Retaining Wall and Railings
Listing Date: 21 August 1987
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 362957
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB26344
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Dumfries, Station Road, Station Hotel
ID on this website: 200362957
Location: Dumfries
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Town: Dumfries
Electoral Ward: Nith
Traditional County: Dumfriesshire
Tagged with: Hotel
Dated 1896. Railway hotel. 3 storeys with basement and attics,
9 bays to station court, outer pairs advanced. Squared red
rubble with contrasting ashlar dressings, 1st floor cill band
encircles building.
Station (E) facade: originally symmetrical with central
projecting gabled porch partly roofing steps from
pavement; cast-iron lamps at the foot. Outer 2 bays slightly
advanced with later large 7-light canted bay projecting at
W in front of ground floor. 2 tripartite windows at E; upper
floors with symmetrical arrangement of 1, 2 and 3-light
windows, 3 flat roofed 3-light dormers to centre, large
4-light, timber-framed gabled dormers over outer bays.
Small-paned dormer casements and upper sashes, 4-pane lower
sashes.
Lover's walk facade: asymmetrical; central projecting glazed
timber porch with tripartite stair windows above. Remaining
windows 1 and 2-light. Raised gable towards E with projecting
flue and apex stack.
Side elevations: symmetrical, 3-bay with 2 canted outer
ground floor windows; raised, wallhead chimney gable with
arched window, scrolled skewputts and apex stack. Broad-eaved,
piended slate roof with large, central octagonal cupola with
elaborate balcony and candle snuffer roof.
Set within retaining wall with cast-iron railings.
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