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Latitude: 55.0678 / 55°4'4"N
Longitude: -3.6167 / 3°37'0"W
OS Eastings: 296855
OS Northings: 576013
OS Grid: NX968760
Mapcode National: GBR 395V.S3
Mapcode Global: WH5WJ.DWZ9
Plus Code: 9C7R399M+48
Entry Name: Museum, Old Bridge House, Old Bridge, Dumfries
Listing Name: Old Bridge Street, Folk Museum Adjoining Devorgilla Bridge
Listing Date: 6 March 1981
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 362905
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB26310
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200362905
Location: Dumfries
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Town: Dumfries
Electoral Ward: North West Dumfries
Traditional County: Kirkcudbrightshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Built circa 1660. Altered 2-storey 3-bay house abutting S
parapet of Devorgilla's bridge, main entrance raised at
built-up bridge approach. Rear jamb added probably first half
of 18th century. Roughly-coursed red rubble with squared
dressings, enlarged late 19th/early 20th century openings with
polished ashlar slab margins; blind wide arch in W gable.
Main (N) elevation to bridge approach, door and flanking
upper windows all with slab margins; blocked openings flank
door; lower (?original) window right with relieving arch;
spur stones at angle, SE angle corbelled above ground. Back
door in re-entrant angle. Straight skews (except over jamb);
rebuilt end stacks; roofed with uniform slates.
Some early (?original) timbers; attic floor with rye chaff
insulation.
Built by James Birkmyre, barrel maker. An inn for much of
the 18th and 19th centuries, and visited by Burns in his
capacity as exciseman. Converted to museum, following death of
last occupant in 1959. A group with Devorgilla bridge.
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