Description

Probably 1730/1750. Baroque town house. 2 storeys with
basement, 5 bays, the inner 3 advanced and pedimented. All
painted; ashlar, with rusticated quoins, windows (now plate
glass sashes) in lugged and key-stoned architraves and with
bracketted cills; Corinthian-columned and pedimented
doorpiece with swags and mask, panelled door with decorative
fanlight. Basement opening on slope of ground at right.
Dentilled cornice; urn-finialled low parapet; oculus in
tympanum; paired end stacks (damaged, right). Slate roof.
Interior: front 1st floor rooms now united, but with extensive
original timber panelling and good plaster ceiling cornices;
original timber chimney piece in room nearest N; opposite
chimney piece 19th century; pilastered and arched hall screens
early 19th century; timber stair; panelled doors in
architraves.

Statement of Interest

Built for Archibald Malcom who was town clerk at the time of

Prince Charlie's visit. W Dickie ascribes this design to

William Adam (see his DUMFRIES n.d. (3rd ed), p. 98).

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17570314

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Recommended Books

• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)