Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

AILSA CRESCENT, DARROCHMHOR INCLUDING BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERSLB45210

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
C
Date Added
30/03/1998
Local Authority
Dumfries And Galloway
Planning Authority
Dumfries And Galloway
Burgh
Stranraer
NGR
NX 05266 61089
Coordinates
205266, 561089

Description

A M Goudie, circa 1955. Single storey with attic, 3-bay L-plan gabled house on sloping site. Harl; red brick dressings; timber porch. Brick base course; brick decorative detail to gablehead apex. Later single-storey extension to reat (E).

W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: single window at ground in gabled central bay; triangular stairwindow at 1st floor. Recessed timber door and window to porch to outer left; single window to outer right. 2 catslide dormers at attic to steeply pitched overhanging roof.

N (SIDE) ELEVATION: single windows to centre of gabled bay at ground and attic; timber door to flat-roofed section to outer left.

S (SIDE) ELEVATION: single window to centre of gabled bay at 1st floor (window at ground infilled); 3-light window to flat-roofed section to outer right.

Multi-pane metal glazing. Red tile roof; brick coped ridge stacks; circular cans.

INTERIOR: (seen 2012). Original room layout largely extant. Single panel timber doors. Dog-leg timber stair with solid banister with timber handrail.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: coped painted boundary walls; square-plan gatepiers with pyramidal caps to pedestrian and vehicular entrance. Garage to N of house.

Statement of Special Interest

Darrochmhor is a good example of an unusual, 1950s domestic property, with some distinctive architectural and decorative period details. These include the steeply pitched roofs, catslide dormers, metal windows and dropped brick design to the gableheads. The house sits on a sloping corner site and is a significant addition to this residential area of Stranraer. The style is a unique development from the inter-war domestic house styles with the use of a brick and timber detailing.

An architects' drawing in the house notes that it was designed originally by J Harkness.

Alexander Maclean Goudie (circa 1900-circa 1965) practiced predominantly in Stranraer.

List description updated, 2012.

References

Bibliography

Ordnance Survey map (1965). Information from Dictionary of Scottish Architects, www.scottisharchitects.org.uk (accessed 27-03-12). Other information courtesy of owner (2012).

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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