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County Hotel, 29, 30 South Main Street, Wigtown

A Category C Listed Building in Wigtown, Dumfries and Galloway

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Coordinates

Latitude: 54.8674 / 54°52'2"N

Longitude: -4.4441 / 4°26'38"W

OS Eastings: 243250

OS Northings: 555247

OS Grid: NX432552

Mapcode National: GBR HHDV.92L

Mapcode Global: WH3TT.PXZG

Plus Code: 9C6QVH84+W9

Entry Name: County Hotel, 29, 30 South Main Street, Wigtown

Listing Name: 29 and 30 South Main Street County Hotel

Listing Date: 20 July 1972

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 388972

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB42434

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200388972

Location: Wigtown

County: Dumfries and Galloway

Town: Wigtown

Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West

Traditional County: Wigtownshire

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Description

Early to earlier 19th century houses, 1 raised to include attic, merged and altered to form inn with carriage pend probably late in the 19th century or early 20th century. Rendered with painted base course, cills and jambs. Segmental carriage pend slapped in to left of 2-storey, 3-bay house at right of hotel; windows to remaining bays and above. Entrance through pend. Taller 2-storey house to left with 4 windows at ground, 2 at 1st floor, and 2 gabled dormers breaking eaves to attic. Plate glass glazing to sash and case windows; multi-pane upper sashes to ground floor windows to left of pend. Grey slates to taller section, rubberoid to tower. Stack to taller mutual gable. Regrettable alterations to rear.

Statement of Interest

Groome refers only to the Commercial Inn and the Galloway Arms, indicating the County Hotel was formed after this date, around the turn of the century.

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