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The Anchorage, 26 Main Street, Elrig

A Category C Listed Building in Mochrum, Dumfries and Galloway

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Coordinates

Latitude: 54.7973 / 54°47'50"N

Longitude: -4.6126 / 4°36'45"W

OS Eastings: 232144

OS Northings: 547842

OS Grid: NX321478

Mapcode National: GBR GJZ0.XKZ

Mapcode Global: WH3V4.3PS5

Plus Code: 9C6QQ9WP+WW

Entry Name: The Anchorage, 26 Main Street, Elrig

Listing Name: Elrig, 26 Main Street, the Anchorage with Garden Wall

Listing Date: 11 November 1994

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 350644

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB16826

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200350644

Location: Mochrum

County: Dumfries and Galloway

Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West

Parish: Mochrum

Traditional County: Wigtownshire

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Description

Circa 1900. 2-storey, with 1st floor breaking eaves, 3-bay house. Squared and snecked whin rubble; S elevation pebble-dashed. Dressed granite rybated margins and quoins.

E (MAIN STREET) ELEVATION: gabled porch, with timber spike finial, at centre; panelled door, with 2-pane letterbox fanlight, to E; windows to N and S returns. Windows to both floors in outer bays, with gabled dormerheads to those at 1st floor.

S ELEVATION: window to left of centre at 1st floor.

N ELEVATION: window to left and right at ground floor, and to right of centre at 1st floor. Plate glass glazing in sash and case windows; 8-pane upper sashes and 2-pane lower sashes to porch windows. Red sandstone coped skews and scroll skewputts to gables and dormerheads; skews continued across gableheads. Granite dressed gablehead stacks, S

stack partly pebble-dashed. Small purple slates. Semi-circular coping to rubble garden wall.

Statement of Interest

No 26 Main Street is not marked on the OS Map of 1894, but is marked on the OS Map of 1907.

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