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Broughton Mains

A Category B Listed Building in Whithorn, Dumfries and Galloway

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Coordinates

Latitude: 54.7769 / 54°46'36"N

Longitude: -4.4086 / 4°24'31"W

OS Eastings: 245178

OS Northings: 545107

OS Grid: NX451451

Mapcode National: GBR HJH2.MB9

Mapcode Global: WH3VF.76X8

Plus Code: 9C6QQHGR+QH

Entry Name: Broughton Mains

Listing Name: Broughton Mains Farmhouse

Listing Date: 20 July 1972

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 350540

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB16740

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200350540

Location: Whithorn

County: Dumfries and Galloway

Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West

Parish: Whithorn

Traditional County: Wigtownshire

Tagged with: Farmstead

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Description

18th and 19th century. 2-storey farmhouse with 3 principal parts. To S main mid 19th century 3-bay front, to N 2 gabled wings, that to E late 18th century (original house) that to W mid 19th century.

S ELEVATION: painted rubble with roughcast short quoins and margins. Central pilastered doorpiece recessed door with fanlight. Flanking door single light windoww, 3 windows at 1st. All sash and case with 4-pane glazing. End skews with block skewputts, corniced end stacks with ocagonal cans. Slate roofs.

NE WING: formerly the original farmhouse incorporated as service wing of 19th century house. Lower 2-storey, 3-bay harled range with central window formerly door. All sash and case windows with 4-pane glazing upper window lintels on eaves level. To left, granite bay exposed fragment, red sandstone heraldic panel with initials I M dated 1628, panel reputedly reset from Old Place of Mochrum, the home of the Murreys of Broughton and Cally. Modern concrete tile roof, tall coped end stacks. NW WING: painted rtubble with raised margins similar in detail to S elevation. Modern concrete tile roof, tall corniced end stacks with octagonal cans. To both gables at N single storey rubble outshots.

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