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77 Hanover Street, Stranraer

A Category C Listed Building in Stranraer, Dumfries and Galloway

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Coordinates

Latitude: 54.9034 / 54°54'12"N

Longitude: -5.0251 / 5°1'30"W

OS Eastings: 206148

OS Northings: 560715

OS Grid: NX061607

Mapcode National: GBR FHZR.70P

Mapcode Global: WH1R8.S09S

Plus Code: 9C6PWX3F+9X

Entry Name: 77 Hanover Street, Stranraer

Listing Name: 77 Hanover Street and 1 Hanover Square

Listing Date: 30 March 1998

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 392051

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB45226

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200392051

Location: Stranraer

County: Dumfries and Galloway

Town: Stranraer

Electoral Ward: Stranraer and the Rhins

Traditional County: Wigtownshire

Tagged with: Shop Tenement

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Description

1902. 2-storey with basement (to rear) and attic, breaking eaves, 3-bay tenement block with bowed corner bay and shops to tall ground floor. Render; ashlar dressings. Base course; mutuled cornice to N elevation. Segmental arched, mullioned windows at 1st floor; small brackets to attic windows; attic windows break eaves at attic to N elevation to form gables.

N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: recessed shop entrance to right of centre; timber and glass door with fanlight; flanking shop windows; modern door and shop window to left of centre. Corniced timber fascia divides ground and 1st floor. Regular fenestration to 1st and attic floors; semicircular pediment to central window at 1st floor; recessed window in round-arched moulding to attic with pediment. Bowed corner bay to outer right; 2 bay bowed shop window at ground; regular fenestration at 1st and attic floors; 1902 inscribed between 1st and attic floors; square tower rises from attic floor; French pavilion roof with mutuled cornice; brattishing.

W (SIDE) ELEVATION: bowed corner bay to outer left (described above); 2 single windows at 1st floor to left; single window at ground to central bay; single windows at 1st and attic floors (irregularly aligned); timber entrance door with fanlight to outer right; single windows at 1st and attic floors (irregularly aligned).

Shop windows at ground; plate glass timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; coped stack; circular cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1997.

Statement of Interest

A good early 20th century building of note because of its prominent and artful corner-siting, French pavilion roof, and substantial retention of ground floor features.

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