Toy Fort, Knockbrex is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 April 1990. Mock fort.

Toy Fort, Knockbrex

WRENN ID: guardian-rotunda-swallow
Grade: B
Local Planning Authority: Dumfries and Galloway
Country: Scotland
Date first listed: 23 April 1990
Type: Mock fort
Source: Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

Circa 1900. Square-plan mock fort, single and 2-storey with

taller towers to angles. Stugged rubble with finely tooled

dressings and pronounced contrasting pointing. Most openings round-arched, small-pane glazed windows. Polygonal towers to

NE and SE angles, to NW round tower with candle-snuffer roof.

To SW angle square turret corbelled out at 1st floor. All

parapets castellated. W elevation single storey with 2 small

cart arches to ground and conservatory to left.

Pair of tall coped rubble gatepiers with ball finials, timber

gates. Curved boundary walls of rubble with decorative pebble

coping.

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