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Latitude: 55.0698 / 55°4'11"N
Longitude: -3.606 / 3°36'21"W
OS Eastings: 297542
OS Northings: 576210
OS Grid: NX975762
Mapcode National: GBR 398T.3F
Mapcode Global: WH5WJ.LT1T
Plus Code: 9C7R399V+WH
Entry Name: Dumfries County Buildings, 113 English Street, Dumfries
Listing Name: English Street, County Buildings
Listing Date: 21 August 1987
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 362696
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB26174
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200362696
Location: Dumfries
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Town: Dumfries
Electoral Ward: Nith
Traditional County: Dumfriesshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Peddie and Forbes Smith, 1912-14. Edwardian
Renaissance large and symmetrical U-plan County
Buildings. Red ashlar, channelled at ground. Central
range has raised centrepiece with consoled and
pedimented doorpiece, arched 3-light window above with
Doric-columned mullions, and flanked by channelled
pilaster strips. Wings 5 bays deep, frontal ends repeat
design of central pavilion, without doors. Balustraded
wall-head parapets and 1st floor aprons. Piended and
plaformed roofs, attic windows concealed by parapets.
Small-paned sashes.
Council chamber at rear with pedimented doorpieces and
columned screens.
Foundation stone laid September 1912.
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