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Latitude: 55.1291 / 55°7'44"N
Longitude: -3.4411 / 3°26'28"W
OS Eastings: 308208
OS Northings: 582583
OS Grid: NY082825
Mapcode National: GBR 49D4.T5
Mapcode Global: WH6XK.3BNT
Plus Code: 9C7R4HH5+JH
Entry Name: Balcarres, 6 High Street, Lochmaben
Listing Name: 6 High Street, Balcarres
Listing Date: 3 August 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 382667
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB37550
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Lochmaben, 6 High Street, Balcarres
ID on this website: 200382667
Location: Lochmaben
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Town: Lochmaben
Electoral Ward: Annandale North
Traditional County: Dumfriesshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Possibly circa 1771 or 1774 (indistinct datestone on (?
original) rear wallhead rear stack), possibly incorporating
earlier fabric at rear. Fine, 2-storey over cellar 5-bay
house, shallow off-set above basement and with rear wings
forming open courtyard. Front is painted ashlar with
margins, remainder whitewashed rubble.
MAIN (W) ELEVATION: panelled 2-leaf central door with plain
fanlight set in lugged and corniced architrave, approached
by steps; sash windows with 4-pane glazing set in wide
margins; low pend door at right; blocked basement openings;
eaves/lintel band; straight skews; 19th century end stacks;
roofed with graded slates. 2-storey rear wing adjoins at NE;
long single storey outbuilding linked to 10 High Street;
boarded loft opening above pend, detached outbuilding to E
continued behind 3 Queen Street.
INTERIOR- panelled doors in architraves; moulded cornices,
some dentilled; wooden stair balusters with bulbous newels.
Window beside main door has margins continued down to
basement level.
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