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Drummore

A Category C Listed Building in Kirkmaiden, Dumfries and Galloway

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Coordinates

Latitude: 54.688 / 54°41'16"N

Longitude: -4.8946 / 4°53'40"W

OS Eastings: 213521

OS Northings: 536395

OS Grid: NX135363

Mapcode National: GBR GJ99.SWZ

Mapcode Global: WH2TF.SFFG

Plus Code: 9C6QM4Q4+55

Entry Name: Drummore

Listing Name: Low Drummore, Farmhouse

Listing Date: 20 July 1972

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 346747

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB13574

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Drummore Castle

ID on this website: 200346747

Location: Kirkmaiden

County: Dumfries and Galloway

Electoral Ward: Stranraer and the Rhins

Parish: Kirkmaiden

Traditional County: Wigtownshire

Tagged with: Castle Farmhouse Architectural structure

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Description

Later 19th century. 2-storey, 3-bay farmhouse; 2-storey cheese loft adjoined to rear, forming L-plan. Painted rubble. Painted raised margins.

S ELEVATION: gabled porch at centre; door to left to W return; window to S; overhanging eaves and timber spike finial. Regularly disposed fenestration.

W ELEVATION: window to left to both floors. Cheese loft recessed to left.

E ELEVATION: gabled and blank.

N ELEVATION: window to left to both floors. Cheese loft adjoined to right.

CHEESE LOFT: door to house and window at 1st floor above to left to E elevation; 2 machinery doors and 3 windows at ground floor; 4 window openings at 1st floor. 3 window openings at ground floor and 4 at 1st floor to W elevation. Lean-to adjoined to N elevation.

Sash and case windows; 4-pane glazing, with smaller upper sashes, to S elevation, some 12-pane glazing. Small-pane glazing and boarded shutters to openings to cheese loft. Coped skews. Painted rubble stacks, gablehead to E and W, ridge to S between house and cheese loft. Purple slates. Octagonal cans.

Painted rubble steading to N.

Statement of Interest

The farmhouse is not marked on the OS Map of 1848. The remains of Drummore Castle were formerly incorporated in the steading of Low Drummore; these remains have been demolished. A description of Drummore Castle is given in the INVENTORY.

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