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6 Lewis Street, Stranraer

A Category B Listed Building in Stranraer, Dumfries and Galloway

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Coordinates

Latitude: 54.9033 / 54°54'11"N

Longitude: -5.0277 / 5°1'39"W

OS Eastings: 205979

OS Northings: 560705

OS Grid: NX059607

Mapcode National: GBR FHYR.CSW

Mapcode Global: WH1R8.R01W

Plus Code: 9C6PWX3C+8W

Entry Name: 6 Lewis Street, Stranraer

Listing Name: 6 Lewis Street Including Boundary Walls

Listing Date: 20 July 1972

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 388104

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB41752

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Stranraer, 6 Lewis Street

ID on this website: 200388104

Location: Stranraer

County: Dumfries and Galloway

Town: Stranraer

Electoral Ward: Stranraer and the Rhins

Traditional County: Wigtownshire

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Description

Earlier 19th century. Single storey with attic, 3-bay symmetrical L plan house. Painted render to entrance elevation; painted rubble to sides. Deep base course; banded quoins; painted surrounds.

NE (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: double fore-stair to entrance; 6-panel timber door, decorative glass to uppermost panels; fanlight; single windows flanking at ground. Segmental-pedimented corniced and pilastered dormers aligned above at attic.

12-pane timber sash and case glazing at ground; 3-pane casement window at dormers with leaded upper banding; rooflight. Graded grey slate roof; coped gablehead stacks; circular cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1997.

BOUNDARY WALLS: coped, rendered boundary wall.

Statement of Interest

This was originally the home of John Henry Lewis Taylor, whose family owned most of the land within the burgh on either side of Stoneykirk Road, and after whom the street was renamed, as Lewis Street, in the 1820s.

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