Townhead Dining Centre, Academy Street, Dumfries is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 March 1981. Dining hall.
Townhead Dining Centre, Academy Street, Dumfries
- WRENN ID
- grey-mantel-autumn
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1981
- Type
- Dining hall
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
James Barbour, 1867-8, as UP church; converted to academy
dining hall circa 1960. Early decorated. Built of
bull-faced red coursers with polished dressings,
contrasting grey banding. Cruciform-plan with twin-gabled
transepts, 2 stages of uncompleted square tower in NW
re-entrant angle, curved, conical-roofed stair turret
adjoins at N. Church hall transversely set at E gable.
Tall 3-light window in main W gable, entrances now in
modern low bull-faced ashlar additions clasping angles of
latter. Transepts have circular lights in gable-heads;
axial roof ventilator; roofed with graded slates.
Interior gutted. Enclosing wall much altered.
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