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Latitude: 55.0847 / 55°5'4"N
Longitude: -3.6963 / 3°41'46"W
OS Eastings: 291817
OS Northings: 578004
OS Grid: NX918780
Mapcode National: GBR 29MN.K3
Mapcode Global: WH5WH.6G3D
Plus Code: 9C7R38M3+VF
Entry Name: The Grove
Listing Name: The Grove, House and Gatepiers
Listing Date: 26 June 1986
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 342796
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB10359
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200342796
Location: Kirkpatrick Irongray
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Castle Douglas and Crocketford
Parish: Kirkpatrick Irongray
Traditional County: Kirkcudbrightshire
Tagged with: Country house
Thomas Rickman of Birmingham, architect, 1825 incorporating
18th century house: additions by Peddie and Kinnear 1869
(dated on rainwater heads). 2-storey mansion house, Tudor
Gothic, basement to north, single storey service range to
northwest and inner courtyard open at west. All red ashlar.
Some windows canted, mullioned, and/or transomed,
particularly on additions: 1825 windows mostly in shallow-
recessed panels. South elevation: 2-stage massive square
entrance tower with corbelled and crenellated parapet, hood-
moulded, pointed doorway with ornamented spandrels blind
panel above, cusped-headed sidelights in ogival margins; 3
tall lights above in round-arched margins, also with cusped
heads. 2 symmetrical bays with ground floor cross-windows
flank tower; advanced gable left, former conservatory beyond
has ashlar mullions and transomes, ball-finialed parapet
with cusped openings; roof now flat. Other elevations
asymmetrical, with advanced/recessed bays, some gabled: some
windows in projecting bays: segmental-headed west-facing
door below modern fire escape. Shaped skews. Stacks mostly
grouped octagonal flues: roofed with graded slates. Square
inner and outer gatepiers polished white granite with
projecting caps, quadrant walls bullfaced red ashlar with
crenellated coping.
Built for Wellwood Maxwell. Used until 1982 as a hospital.
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