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Mount Pleasant, Hill Street, Dumfries

A Category C Listed Building in Dumfries, Dumfries and Galloway

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.0664 / 55°3'59"N

Longitude: -3.6207 / 3°37'14"W

OS Eastings: 296594

OS Northings: 575863

OS Grid: NX965758

Mapcode National: GBR 394V.XM

Mapcode Global: WH5WJ.CX2C

Plus Code: 9C7R398H+HP

Entry Name: Mount Pleasant, Hill Street, Dumfries

Listing Name: Hill Street, Mount Pleasant

Listing Date: 21 August 1987

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 362780

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB26237

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200362780

Location: Dumfries

County: Dumfries and Galloway

Town: Dumfries

Electoral Ward: North West Dumfries

Traditional County: Kirkcudbrightshire

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Description

Later 19th century. Italianate villa, 2 storeys with
tower. Squared, stugged and snecked red rubble with ashlar
dressings. Margined round-arched and key-stoned openings
with impost blocks throughout. Hill Street elevation
symmetrical with advanced 3-stage tower flanked by gables,
each gable with bipartite ground floor and single 1st floor
windows. Central pilastered doorway in tower with narrow
window 1st floor and bipartite 2nd floor. Band courses
between floors and tower stages; tower has broad
modillioned cornice and finialled low-pitch pyramid roof.
Ball-finialled gables and skews. SE return elevation: 2
bays, bipartites at ground, single 1st floor windows with
gabletted dormer heads; NE elevation to Maxwell Street 3
bays. Single-pane sashes throughout. Stacks mostly paired
square flues; slate roofs. High garden wall with 4
gatepiers at corner, square piers with curved angles and
with shaped caps. Link dwarf wall with modern wrought-iron
railings.

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