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Police Station, East Morton Street, Thornhill

A Category C Listed Building in Mid and Upper Nithsdale, Dumfries and Galloway

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.2427 / 55°14'33"N

Longitude: -3.7627 / 3°45'45"W

OS Eastings: 288026

OS Northings: 595689

OS Grid: NX880956

Mapcode National: GBR 275T.5G

Mapcode Global: WH5VP.5HJ8

Plus Code: 9C7R66VP+3W

Entry Name: Police Station, East Morton Street, Thornhill

Listing Name: Thornhill, East Morton Street Police Station and House

Listing Date: 26 June 1986

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 351253

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB17356

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200351253

Location: Morton

County: Dumfries and Galloway

Electoral Ward: Mid and Upper Nithsdale

Parish: Morton

Traditional County: Dumfriesshire

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Description

Barbour and Bowie of Dumfries, architect. Built 1909. Scots
Baronial Police station with house adjoining. All bullfaced
red ashlar with polished dressings and crow-stepped gables.
House: 2 storeys, 3 bays; central porch with curved gable:
outer 1st floor windows with pedimented dormer heads (other
windows bipartite), inner window swept-roofed; coped end
stacks; rear wing. Station: 2-storey "tower house" with
splayed base. Corbelled and crenellated parapet enclosing
gable; lower window barred, segmental-arched upper windows:
linking bay with round-arched door in lean-to porch: low
wings to flank and to rear. Slate roofs. Coped bullfaced
ashlar wall to roadside, swept down and railed towards
square, pyramid-capped gatepiers.

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