Gates And Outbuildings, Dunure House With Walls, Station Road, Wigtown

Dunure House, built between 1833 and 1838 by architect and builder John McPhee from Newton Stewart, is a symmetrical three-bay house featuring ornamental stable buildings at the rear and elaborate symmetrical entrance gates. The ground floor windows are fitted with louvred shutters, although some windows are blinded.

The house is constructed of polished cream ashlar sandstone, with banding at the ground level and strip pilasters. The central bay is slightly advanced and accessed by steps leading to a wide Doric-columned porch. The entrance features a tripartite doorpiece with a panelled door, astragalled sidelights, and a fanlight. Most windows are single light, except for the tripartite window with stone mullions in the center. All windows retain their original sash and case design with multi-pane margined glazing. The wide two-bay flanks have single windows on both the ground and first floors. A cornice runs above the ground floor and at the eaves, topped by a deep plain parapet with die piers that were once linked by a timber balustrade, removed around 1980. The house has tall corniced stacks, some of which have been recently rebuilt, and features piended and platformed slate roofs with small rooflights. There is also a single-storey slate-roofed wing at the rear.

Inside, the house boasts good plaster cornices, panelled doors, and some chimneypieces. Notably, there is an incised marble Egypto-Grecian chimneypiece with ramped pilasters in the drawing room.

The boundary walls are made of painted rubble and are coped, with paired Egypto-Grecian lintelled ashlar gateways flanking the central carriage entrance, which is adorned with cast-iron gates.

The outbuildings consist of a single-storey and attic rubble coach house, featuring a gable end with a tall embattled canted screen wall. There is a vehicle entrance at ground level and a margin-glazed window above.