Burgh Museum And Observatory, Church Street, Dumfries

Burgh Museum and Observatory, located on Church Street in Dumfries, was designed by Walter Newall between 1835 and 1836, with some remodelling of a late 18th-century windmill to create the observatory and the installation of a camera obscura in 1836. The building features a modern museum extension to the south, designed in a Greek Revival style, characterized by aedicules with ramped architraves. The structure has three storeys and is topped with a deep parapet supported by brackets. The exterior is whitewashed, while the original tower is built from rubble with some roughly dressed stone. Newall's alterations are made of ashlar. The building includes small-paned sash windows, some of which are fitted with iron bars. The north entrance is approached by steps flanked by coped monolithic parapets and corniced, battered piers. The third-floor openings feature boldly bracketted balconies, and there is a concealed roof with a camera obscura viewer positioned above.