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Council Offices, 10 Market Street, Stranraer

A Category C Listed Building in Stranraer, Dumfries and Galloway

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Coordinates

Latitude: 54.9058 / 54°54'20"N

Longitude: -5.0288 / 5°1'43"W

OS Eastings: 205922

OS Northings: 560982

OS Grid: NX059609

Mapcode National: GBR FHYR.59H

Mapcode Global: WH1R2.QYJK

Plus Code: 9C6PWX4C+8F

Entry Name: Council Offices, 10 Market Street, Stranraer

Listing Name: 10 Market Street

Listing Date: 17 December 1979

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 388126

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB41771

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200388126

Location: Stranraer

County: Dumfries and Galloway

Town: Stranraer

Electoral Ward: Stranraer and the Rhins

Traditional County: Wigtownshire

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Description

Early to earlier 19th century. 2-storey with attic, 3-bay rectangular plan symmetrical house. Squared and snecked whinstone; harled dormers; contrasting sandstone dressings and quoins; painted surrounds to openings.

N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: central doorway; timber door; letterbox fanlight; single window at 1st floor; single windows to both floors of flanking bays, (single window at ground in bay to left non-aligned to upper floor). Canted dormers to outer left and right at attic.

12-pane timber sash and case glazing; replacement glazing to bottom sashes of ground floor windows and aluminium dormers; rooflight. Grey slate roof; stone skews; coped apex stacks; circular cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1997.

Statement of Interest

Originally built as a licensed hotel and known as the Queen's Arms.

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