Listed Building

The only legal part of the listing under the Planning (Listing Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 is the address/name of site. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing – see 'About Listed Buildings' below for more information. The further details below the 'Address/Name of Site' are provided for information purposes only.

Address/Name of Site

49 GEORGE STREET, GEORGE HOTEL INCLUDING POSTBOXLB41781

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
20/07/1972
Local Authority
Dumfries And Galloway
Planning Authority
Dumfries And Galloway
Burgh
Stranraer
NGR
NX 05970 60837
Coordinates
205970, 560837

Description

1876, incorporating an earlier Georgian building. 2-storey and attic, 9-bay asymmetrical-plan hotel with L plan courtyard at centre. Painted render. Base course; corniced architraved and corbelled windows at 1st floor; pedimented dormers at attic; iron hanging baskets between ground and 1st floor; dentilled cornice.

N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: symmetrical. Steps to pedimented central doorpiece; decorative dentilled cornice; urns surmount octagonal shafts (left missing) and pediment; ?George Hotel? inscribed within; timber and glass door; single window at 1st floor; thistle motif aligned above; dormer surmounted by lead platformed pyramid tower. Regular fenestration to flanking bays. Postbox at ground to outer left. Rose motif above 1st floor window in penultimate bay to outer left; shamrock motif above 1st floor window in penultimate bay to outer right. Decorative timber surrounds to ground floor windows.

W (CHURCH STREET) ELEVATION: 8-bay. Dentilled dividing band course with terminating skewputts to 3 bays to left. Corbelled pedimented windows at 1st floor; dentilled cornice; anthemion and palmette frieze; plain surrounds to window to outer left and central upper window in 3 bays to left; scrolled decorative consoles to windows at ground flanking door to right. Single window to gabled bay to outer left. Arched windows set in keystoned arched rollmouled surrounds in 3 bays to left; central bay blind. Boarded timber carriage entrance; studded surround. Timber entrance door to right; 2 small glass panels to left; single windows flanking. Regular fenestration at upper storeys.

Predominantly 2-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; skews; square skewputts; dentilled corniced stacks; circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: plaster ceilings; decorative friezes; egg and dart ovolo mouldings. Elaborate staircase; turned wall strings; domed newel posts. Corbel supports to central courtyard reveal earlier building structure.

POSTBOX: wall-mounted postbox, began production in 1858.

Statement of Special Interest

Building is dated 1876, but incorporates a late Georgian building. It was said in The Visitor's Guide to Wigtownshire by W McIlwraith (1875) that the hotel had 'capital accommodation for both man and beast.' It reflects an important aspect of late 18th century Stranraer life, as a staging post for the short crossing from Stranraer to Ireland.

References

Bibliography

John Wood's 1845 map (evident); W McIlwraith THE VISITORS GUIDE TO WIGTOWNSHIRE (1875), p99; Photograph (Stranraer Library/GWa31) circa 1925); EP Dennison Torrie and Russel Coleman HISTORIC STRANRAER (1995), pp 22,54; J Gifford DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY (1996), p536.

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

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