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Latitude: 55.0696 / 55°4'10"N
Longitude: -3.6146 / 3°36'52"W
OS Eastings: 296993
OS Northings: 576210
OS Grid: NX969762
Mapcode National: GBR 396T.7G
Mapcode Global: WH5WJ.FTZX
Plus Code: 9C7R399P+V5
Entry Name: Post Office, 42, 44 Buccleuch Street, Dumfries
Listing Name: 42, 44 Buccleuch Street
Listing Date: 6 March 1981
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 362600
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB26109
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200362600
Location: Dumfries
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Town: Dumfries
Electoral Ward: Nith
Traditional County: Dumfriesshire
Tagged with: Post office
W W Robertson. Dated 1887. Scottish Jacobean. Former
post office. 2 storeys with railed basement, off-centre
wide gable with door (approached by platt) and single
segmental-arched window at ground, 1st floor corbelled
and with transomed 3-light window, decorative and finialed
skews; single recessed bay left with 2 windows at ground,
2 bays recessed at right with balustraded low square
projection in re-entrant angle; 1st floor windows break
through eaves and have pedimented dormer heads. Stugged
red coursers with polished dressings, moulded reveals,
stepped strings, crow-stepped gables and coped end stacks.
Slate roof. Detailing repeated on E gable. Cast-iron
railings linked to square piers.
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