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Latitude: 54.9038 / 54°54'13"N
Longitude: -5.0284 / 5°1'42"W
OS Eastings: 205934
OS Northings: 560764
OS Grid: NX059607
Mapcode National: GBR FHYR.CFP
Mapcode Global: WH1R8.Q0PH
Plus Code: 9C6PWX3C+GJ
Entry Name: Council Offices, Dunbae House, Church Street, Stranraer
Listing Name: Church Street, Dunbae House, Including Boundary Walls, Gatepiers and Railings
Listing Date: 20 July 1972
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 388099
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB41747
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200388099
Location: Stranraer
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Town: Stranraer
Electoral Ward: Stranraer and the Rhins
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
Tagged with: Office building
1823. 3-storey, 3-bay classical rectangular-plan house with central circular plan stair tower, with finial, to rear. Sandstone rubble; painted render at E elevation; painted at W elevation; painted ashlar surrounds. Base course; painted margins; dentilled cornice; blocking course. Cill brackets.
E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: steps to central pedimented and pilastered doorpiece; 4-panel timber door; pedimented single window aligned above at 1st floor; tripartite window at 2nd floor with semi circular pediment over centre light; curvilinear chimneyed gablehead; oculus within. Single windows at ground in flanking bays; tripartite windows at 1st floor with pedimented centre lights; single windows at 2nd floor.
W (REAR ELEVATION): central stair tower. Single windows flanking at 2nd floor. Small window to right of stair tower. Modern gabled and flat-roofed extensions at ground.
Plate glass timber sash and case windows; multi pane glazing to stairtower; modern windows to rear at 2nd floor; rooflights. Grey slate roof; skews; corniced gablehead stacks; circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Lamp over entrance doorway.
INTERIOR: not seen 1997.
BOUNDARY WALLS, GATEPIERS AND RAILINGS: coped boundary wall; iron railings; coped gatepiers. Rubble wall; coped harl gatepiers to vehicular entrances at W.
Originally used by the City of Glasgow Bank and described by W McIlwraith in 1875 as, "...a plain, substantial building ... removed from the line of the street." The ground floor window on the left carries an interesting reminder of the building's former use, with a small glass peep-hole cut into the bottom of the window frame, to enable those approaching the bank to be recognised. J Gifford suggests the pediments above the entrance and centre lights of the tripartite 1st floor windows are mid 19th century embellishments. The building is currently used as council offices.
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