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Latitude: 54.8421 / 54°50'31"N
Longitude: -5.1165 / 5°6'59"W
OS Eastings: 199985
OS Northings: 554149
OS Grid: NW999541
Mapcode National: GBR FHRX.741
Mapcode Global: WH1RF.CKTB
Plus Code: 9C6PRVRM+RC
Entry Name: Rockville, 49 Main Street, Portpatrick
Listing Name: 49 Main Street, Rockville Including Boundary Walls
Listing Date: 20 July 1972
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 350548
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB16748
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Portpatrick, 49 Main Street, Rockville
ID on this website: 200350548
Location: Portpatrick
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Stranraer and the Rhins
Parish: Portpatrick
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
1765. 2-storey with basement and attic, 3-bay rectangular-plan house. Painted render to SE and SW elevations, exposed rubble to NW elevation. Margins to windows.
SE (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: steps to central advanced, pedimented bay, oversailing/bridging basement recess; pilastered doorpiece with consoled cornice; 4-panel timber door with small ogee-headed panes to fanlight; basement window to right; single window at 1st floor; oculus to tympanum. Flanking single windows to basement, ground and 1st floor of recessed bays (no basement window to right).
NW (REAR) ELEVATION: regular fenestration to all floors, (windows at basement and ground floor to outer right infilled). Small window at attic to base of wallhead stack.
SW ELEVATION: 2 small adjoining outbuildings at basement, lean to to outer left, gabled entrance to outer right; 2 single windows at ground floor; single window to right at 1st floor; 2 small single windows at attic.
4-pane timber sash and case windows to SE and SW, 9-and 12-pane to NW; rooflight to NW. Grey slate roof; stone skews; square skewputts; corniced gablehead stacks, central wallhead stack to NW; circular cans.
INTERIOR: not seen 1997.
BOUNDARY WALLS: coped painted rubble boundary walls.
The house and adjoining property (No 47 Main Street), were built as the Customs Officer's House and offices, on ground feued by James Hunter Blair of Dunskey to the Hon Commissioners of Customs, when Portpatrick was an important packet harbour.
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