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Latitude: 55.0846 / 55°5'4"N
Longitude: -3.5937 / 3°35'37"W
OS Eastings: 298364
OS Northings: 577845
OS Grid: NX983778
Mapcode National: GBR 39BN.R3
Mapcode Global: WH5WJ.RGWF
Plus Code: 9C7R3CM4+RG
Entry Name: Stables, Marchfield House
Listing Name: Edinburgh Road, Marchfield House with Ancillary Structure
Listing Date: 3 April 2002
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 395999
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB48571
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200395999
Location: Dumfries
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Town: Dumfries
Electoral Ward: Lochar
Traditional County: Dumfriesshire
Tagged with: Stable
James Barbour, circa 1878. 2-storey villa with 3-stage tower, Tudor detailing. Bull-faced, squared and snecked red sandstone, with ashlar base course, dividing band course, 1st floor cill course and eaves cornice, and ashlar tower.
SW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: entrance tower to centre with segmental opening at ground flanked by paired pilasters with stylised capitals, shield and fleurons above; billetted lintel to door with plate glass fanlight; panelled door. Short flight of steps approaching entrance. 1st floor window above entrance with block pediment. Towerhead breaking eaves above with oculus and segmental-headed bipartite to SW, single windows to returns; mutuled cornice, fretted stone balustrade, dies and engaged flues to corners, and round-arched shelter at stairhead to platform roof. Bay to left with canted window at ground, triglyph and guttae details, blocking course and tablet, and corniced 1st floor window; 2-light arrowslit to curvilinear gablehead with obelisk finials. Bay to right canted with window to each face and polygonal roof, cast-iron finial.
SE ELEVATION: curvilinear gabled bay to centre with canted window at ground and bipartite above; doorway flanking to left with window at 1st floor; advanced chimneybreast to left. Recessed bays of service wing to right.
NE ELEVATION: curvilinear gabled bay to centre with projecting window at ground, corniced bipartite window at 1st floor above. Further gable to outer left. Windows to right.
Modern glazing. Grey slate roof. Lead flashings. Wall and gablehead ashlar stacks with corniced coping.
INTERIOR: timber stair with decoratively carved newel posts and ball finials; decorative plasterwork disguising support beams and to trabeated coved stairhead, with fine pitched rooflight and painted glass. Fine marble classical chimneypieces, 1 with paired contrasting green columned colonnettes. Deep skirting boards.
ANCILLARY STRUCTURE: former stable, materially en suite. Single storey, rectangular-plan 5-bay piend-roofed range to E of house with 3 doors and 2 windows (now blocked), and with central gabled stone hayloft dormerhead. Grey slates. INTERIOR: cobbled floor, white-washed walls.
Built by J H Houston whose name is carved on a stack viewed from the towerhead. Houston's brother is believed to have built a villa in Lockerbie Road, Brownrig. Marchfield is prominently sited and a good example of a later Victorian villa.
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