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Latitude: 54.8685 / 54°52'6"N
Longitude: -4.4394 / 4°26'21"W
OS Eastings: 243551
OS Northings: 555366
OS Grid: NX435553
Mapcode National: GBR HHDV.56F
Mapcode Global: WH3TT.SW5L
Plus Code: 9C6QVH96+C6
Entry Name: Bank House Gatepiers, 19 Bank Street, Wigtown
Listing Name: Bank Street Bank House Garden Wall and Garden Houses
Listing Date: 17 December 1979
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 388894
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB42363
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Wigtown, 19 Bank Street, Bank House Gatepiers
ID on this website: 200388894
Location: Wigtown
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Town: Wigtown
Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Mid 19th century. 2-storey and basement house with classical details, main 3-bay elevation to S, with gable ends to E and W. N wing 2-storey with piended roof. Single-storey porch/former bank office to NW.
S ELEVATION: polished sandstone with banded base courses, rusticated quoins (raised flat architraves, windows with cornice and aprons to ground). Sash and case windows with plate glass glazing. Band course to 1st floor cills, eaves band, eaves cornice. Sandstone skews, corniced end stacks some octagonal cans, slate roofs with modern rooflights. Steps to central porch with square pillars supporting cornice and block pediment. Panelled door with fanlight. Flanks and rear rubble with rusticated quoins, 2-storey irregularly fenestrated N wing, roof platform with sandstone balustrade and stacks at angles. Single storey extension to NW with door, masonry as above with deep coped rubble parapet. Corniced architraved and lugged doorway, double-leaf panelled doors. Bipartite window to left with bracketted cill (now modern door). INTERIOR: good plaster cornices, panelled doors and shutters, stair with good cast-iron balusters. Tall couped rubble garden wall surrounds house. To SE and NE angles 2 single storey square rubble garden pavilions with rusticated quoins and arched sandstone-margined windows. House to NE with slated pyramidal roof, that to SE currently (1987) roofless. Centre of S wall pair of tall coped rusticated gatepiers and cast-iron gates. To N wall pair of smaller coped rusticated gatepiers and cast-iron gates.
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