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Latitude: 55.0741 / 55°4'26"N
Longitude: -3.6076 / 3°36'27"W
OS Eastings: 297453
OS Northings: 576694
OS Grid: NX974766
Mapcode National: GBR 397R.RW
Mapcode Global: WH5WJ.KQ9H
Plus Code: 9C7R39FR+JX
Entry Name: Gracefield Arts Centre, 28 Edinburgh Road, Dumfries
Listing Name: 28 Edinburgh Road, Gracefield Arts Centre and Gatepiers
Listing Date: 6 March 1981
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 362671
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB26157
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200362671
Location: Dumfries
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Town: Dumfries
Electoral Ward: Nith
Traditional County: Dumfriesshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Style of Walter Newall. Barge-boarded picturesque
asymmetrical villa, now converted for use as Arts Centre.
2 storeys. Stugged red coursers with polished dressings
and margins, windows with deep cavetto cornices and
mostly aproned at ground. S elevation: 2 asymmetrically
gabled outer bays (canted window right and attic light),
narrow recessed entrance bay between, 4-panelled door
with fanlight and sidelights, bracketted balcony over
now glazed to eaves level. 2-bay W elevation with advanced
gable left. Windows (some blind) sashes, mostly plate
glass or with 12-pane glazing pattern. Projecting eaves;
elaborately carved barge-boards; corniced squat stacks;
slate roof with rooflights.
Interior: much altered during conversion to Art Gallery;
2 ground floor rooms nearest main road have good cornice
and ceiling plasterwork; cantilevered stone stair with
cast-iron balusters.
Rubble-built ashlar-coped boundary wall at W, altered
square gatepiers now capped with stone eagles.
Compares with Beattock Inn and with Walter Newall's design
entitled "Glassmount House" (see NMRS).
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