18-20 King Street, Stranraer is a Grade A listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 1998. Bakery. 1 related planning application.

18-20 King Street, Stranraer

WRENN ID
peeling-pavement-auburn
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
30 March 1998
Type
Bakery
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

18-20 King Street in Stranraer is an early 19th century shopfront with later 19th century additions. The building is two storeys high with an attic and features a three-bay bakery shopfront, including a gabled bakery on the outer right and a brick bakery at the rear. The shopfront has recessed openings.

On the entrance elevation, there is a timber and glass entrance door on the left, with a bowed shop window beside it and another shop window on the outer right, which has a Venetian window glazing pattern. The first floor has regular fenestration, and there are canted dormers in the attic on the outer left and right. To the outer right, there is a tall single-storey addition with a gabled roof, timber doors, and half-timbering at the gablehead.

The ground floor features shop windows, while the first floor has two- and four-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slate and has coped stacks and circular cans.

Inside, the shop features timber panelling and glass and timber storage cabinets. There is a rounded shop office with fluted columns and a decorative dentilled cornice, along with a timber and glass door. The bakery area includes a timber clocking-in machine and card-holder, ceramic tiling, iron pillars, and timber bracing. The bakery has ovens made by James Cruickshank of Edinburgh and draw plates at the rear. An automatic bread baking machine made of metal and glass by Melvin and Gillespie of Glasgow is located on the upper floor, along with mixing machines and bowls.

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