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Airds Of Kells

A Category B Listed Building in Dee and Glenkens, Dumfries and Galloway

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Coordinates

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

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Description

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.

Statement of Interest

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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