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Latitude: 54.7349 / 54°44'5"N
Longitude: -4.415 / 4°24'53"W
OS Eastings: 244608
OS Northings: 540445
OS Grid: NX446404
Mapcode National: GBR HJG6.4DL
Mapcode Global: WH3VM.47WZ
Plus Code: 9C6QPHMP+X2
Entry Name: New Town Hall, 53 St John Street, Whithorn
Listing Name: 53 St John Street, Whithorn Town Hall with Gate, Railings and Quadrant Wall
Listing Date: 25 March 1993
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 388736
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB42261
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200388736
Location: Whithorn
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Town: Whithorn
Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
Tagged with: City hall Seat of local government
David Henry, St Andrews 1885. Tudor style town hall. Squared and snecked whintstone rubble with ashlar dressings; base course, stone mullions and transoms; chamfered reveals.
E ELEVATION: gabled porch recessed to left; hoodmoulded pointed-arch doorway (foliate label stops) in chamfered and moulded surround; 2-leaf boarded door with blind fanlight; window flanking to right, cusped, arcaded rows carved in apex panel; ashlar finial. Body of the hall to right, advanced, with large 4-light window; apex panel detailed as above, and stone finial.
N ELEVATION: 5-bay; tall window to each bay, divided by buttresses
S ELEVATION: 4-bay gabled block adjoined to taller hall; M-gabled bays at centre, each with window; small bipartite windows to outer bays. Small-pane windows to W elevation; plate glass and square-pane glazing patterns in sash and case windows to S elevation.
Ashlar coped skews with bracketted skewputts and kneelers to main
gable. Graduated slates. Circular ridge ventilator on pyramidal, slate-hung base. Stacks to lower bays to S, with decorative cans. Decorative ridge tiles. Decorative cast-iron gutterheads.
INTERIOR: not seen (1990).
GATE, RAILINGS AND QUADRANT: fleur-de-lis cast-iron gate and quadrant railings on whinstone rubble, ashlar coped base.
The town hall was built to replace the earlier hall with tower 65, 67 and 69 George Street listed separately. The principal hall is 30' x 60'. It was opened on 13th January 1886.
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