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Latitude: 55.0112 / 55°0'40"N
Longitude: -4.0717 / 4°4'17"W
OS Eastings: 267619
OS Northings: 570480
OS Grid: NX676704
Mapcode National: GBR 4Z.VJVG
Mapcode Global: WH4VK.F9BN
Plus Code: 9C7Q2W6H+F8
Entry Name: Airds Of Kells
Listing Name: Airds of Kells
Listing Date: 4 November 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 342022
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB9721
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200342022
Location: Kells
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Dee and Glenkens
Parish: Kells
Traditional County: Kirkcudbrightshire
Tagged with: Farmstead
Unusually complete and unaltered later 18th century farmhouse
with symmetrical curving walls linking flanking pavilions. 2
storeys. House and pavilions all 3-bay elevations, painted
rubble with raised margins.
MAIN HOUSE: gabled brick porch to centre all windows sash and
case with 4-pane glazing pattern. Symmetrical curving coped
rubble walls link house to pavilions, both 3-bay, 2-storey.
That to left seems always to have had domestic usage, that
to right with byre to ground and storage above. Both with
hipped-roofs ending as sawn-off gable with wallhead stack to
N.
Curved linlang walls with central doorway flanked by small
blocked windows/niches. Slate roofs throughout, coped end
stacks.
A good and rare example of its type; at Airds of Kells the
curving linking walls and pavillions survive intact, these
ancillary buildings are usually most vulnerable to alteration
or demolition. A similar symmetrical layout, (though on a
larger scale) is found at Kelton Mains, Kelton Parish.
To the rear of the house lying in the garden is a single cut
stone, probably a fragment of a medieval round-headed
bipartite window.
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