Gate Piers And Walls, Dunmore With Gates, Harbour Road, Wigtown

Circa 1845, converted to a house 1914; further additions and alterations, 1947. Tall single storey, 5-bay house, rectangular-plan, with lower single storey pavilions (former school wings). Whinstone rubble with red sandstone ashlar dressings, base and eaves course; droved and rusticated quoins and rybats; hoodmoulds to principal windows; white painted, harled end gables. Blockish tripartite ashlar porch at centre; modern door (former window), flanked by windows; 2 small windows under eaves on wallplane above and behind. 2 tall windows flanking each side that to left former door. Pavilion bays added 1947 with timber garage doors (glazed panels), that to left with pedestrian door in addition. 2 small windows (1 blocked), hoodmoulded, on left return. Right return with conservatory to rear.

REAR: painted rubble with ashlar dressings. Conservatory to left. Plate glass glazing in sash and case windows. Concrete tiles. Small end stacks. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

GATES, gatepiers and boundary walls: wrought-iron and xast-iron arrowhead gates, Anderson Foundary Bladnoch. 2 pairs of plain, tall red sandstone ashlar pedestrian gatepiers each with horizontal overthrow, blocking course and tablet; 1 tablet incised Dunmore, the other dated 1850. Rubble whinstone boundary walls, ashlar coped, heavily pointed in places and in quadrant form by driveway; adjoined to pavilion bays.