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Latitude: 55.1402 / 55°8'24"N
Longitude: -3.7769 / 3°46'36"W
OS Eastings: 286830
OS Northings: 584318
OS Grid: NX868843
Mapcode National: GBR 2920.E1
Mapcode Global: WH5W7.Y2M7
Plus Code: 9C7R46RF+36
Entry Name: Hearse House, Dunscore
Listing Name: Hearse House
Listing Date: 28 August 1992
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 338213
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB6579
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Dunscore, Hearse House
ID on this website: 200338213
Location: Dunscore
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Mid and Upper Nithsdale
Parish: Dunscore
Traditional County: Dumfriesshire
Tagged with: Hearse house
Small single-storey red sandstone ashlar and whinstone rubble building on sloping site in angle between two roads. Tall double-leaf boarded door in W gable, which is sandstone. E gable has short coped chimney stack sandstone skew and rybats. N wall blind, S wall has small window towards E end. E gable has lost skew on N side. Seat at head, probably for ball finial. At W low rubble retainijng wall, now decaying.
Hearse houses are a feature of parish provision, mainly in loewland Scotland. Most are adjacent to parish churches. This is a rare and unaltered example of one separated from its church, hence the category of listing o modest structure.
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