Dumfries Youth Club, 29 Irish Street, Dumfries

Earlier 18th century. Baroque 2-storey 5-bay town house

with piended shallow-recessed flanking bays (these with

simpler detailing, but seemingly original); raised basement

and attic to Whitesands (W); minor low additions. Set back

from Irish Street behind high garden wall. Renovated by

J M Bowie, 1923. Built of brick with ashlar dressings,

lugged and keystoned architraves and rusticated quoins;

mostly painted, except at W. E elevation: central

rusticated doorway, ashlar shallow-raised panel over linked

to window cill above, 1st floor windows are roughly square

and have bracketted cills; lintels linked to eaves band.

Small-paned sash windows with vertical glazing pattern.

Main cornice; skews; corniced brick end stacks; slated

roof, slightly bell-cast. Low addition linked to recessed

bay right built of painted droved ashlar and with bowed

S-facing bay. W elevation: basement is rubble-built

(containing single long barrel-vaulted room) and with early

steep-gabled central porch (?by Bowie, 1923) built of red

ashlar, stair window above between floors. Plain margined

windows; 2 bipartite dormers.

Interior: some good fielded panelling survives; timber

stair; cornice plasterwork.

Courtyard to W flanked by 2 low outbuildings, screen wall

with central gate to Whitesands, corniced square piers with

pyramidal caps.