Old Station House, Harbour Road, Wigtown

Thomas Brown Junior, 1846-8. Former county jail and police station in Neo-Tudor style. Rubble with polished red sandstone angles and margins. T-plan 2-storey and attic; offices to front, prison to rear.

Front Elevation: (projecting jamb of T) has tall thin advanced outer bays flanking gabled centre, originally with symmetrical windows, one now enlarged at 1st floor. Single bipartite to ground; 2 single lights and wide bipartite to 1st; small attic light. All windows hoodmoulded, sash and case with plate glass glazing. At outer bays and to gable apex tall octagonal ashlar stacks.

To rear: 5-bay, 2-storey block with cells to ground lit by small rectangular windows placed hugh up. 5 single light 1st floor windows, sash and case with mixed 2 and link walls to sides with sandstone dressings. Pedestrian gate to left, vehicular opening to right. 12-pane glazing. End skews, tall octagonal ashlar stacks. Rubble walls support decorative cast-iron railings; rusticated granite gatepiers.