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Town Hall And Custom House, 5-9 St Andrew Street, Castle Douglas

A Category B Listed Building in Castle Douglas, Dumfries and Galloway

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Coordinates

Latitude: 54.9396 / 54°56'22"N

Longitude: -3.9326 / 3°55'57"W

OS Eastings: 276293

OS Northings: 562258

OS Grid: NX762622

Mapcode National: GBR 0CZB.D2

Mapcode Global: WH4W0.K3KK

Plus Code: 9C6RW3Q8+RX

Entry Name: Town Hall And Custom House, 5-9 St Andrew Street, Castle Douglas

Listing Name: St Andrew Street, Town Hall and Customs House

Listing Date: 23 April 1990

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 358718

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB22979

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Castle Douglas, 5-9 St Andrew Street, Town Hall And Custom House

ID on this website: 200358718

Location: Castle Douglas

County: Dumfries and Galloway

Town: Castle Douglas

Electoral Ward: Castle Douglas and Crocketford

Traditional County: Kirkcudbrightshire

Tagged with: Custom house Italianate architecture Seat of local government

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Description

Dated 1862. Asymmetrical Italianate town hall and customs
house. Polished ashlar with raised angle margins and
basecourse, 2-storeys. All windows round-arched lancets with
pilastered reveals and keystoned archivolts and bracketted
cills. Recessed gabled bay to left with tall 3-light window.
To centre, pilastered doorpiece with cartouche above,
bipartite light to 1st.
To right, symmetrical 3-bay part, advanced outer pedimented
bays with single lancets, inner bay with 3-light window.
Eaves cornice, blocking course, block pediment over centre
with panel inscribed Town Hall, 1862. Slate roof, piended
over hall.

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