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Latitude: 54.837 / 54°50'13"N
Longitude: -4.0543 / 4°3'15"W
OS Eastings: 268160
OS Northings: 551070
OS Grid: NX681510
Mapcode National: GBR 0D4H.1V
Mapcode Global: WH4WB.PPL6
Plus Code: 9C6QRWPW+R7
Entry Name: Blair House, 8 High Street, Kirkcudbright
Listing Name: 8 High Street, Blair House and Summer House and Walls to Castle Dykes.
Listing Date: 4 November 1971
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 381333
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB36529
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Kirkcudbright, 8 High Street, Blair House
ID on this website: 200381333
Location: Kirkcudbright
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Town: Kirkcudbright
Electoral Ward: Dee and Glenkens
Traditional County: Kirkcudbrightshire
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1817. Built for writer Robert Gordon. Detached house of 2-storeys over bsement, 3-bays. Painted squared rubble, painted margins and rusticated quoins. Band course at ground floor level. Cebtral door with narrow flanking lights with etched glass at head of 4 steps, wide segmental fanlight, engaged Ionin columned doorpiece with central keystone and cornice. Cill band to ground floor windows; 12-pane glazing. Cornice
and blocking course. Garden front has prominent full-height semi-octagonal central bay rising through the eaves to catellated parapet. Cillband to 1st floor windows. Piended slate roof. Front courtyard with good spear-pattern cast-iron railings, square cast-iron gatepiers with finials, gates with decorative lower panels.
INTERIOR: pilastered, depressed-arch hall screen; octagonal drawing room with naturalistic detail in cornice; good cast-iron stair balustrade. SUMMERHOUSE: circular, built into harbour retaining wall. Rubble-built with Gothic windows. Castellated.
In 1821 Mary Gordon married Dr Blair. His last daughter died at Blair House in 1933.
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