Police House, East Morton Street, Thornhill

Barbour and Bowie of Dumfries, architect. Built 1909. Scots

Baronial Police station with house adjoining. All bullfaced

red ashlar with polished dressings and crow-stepped gables.

House: 2 storeys, 3 bays; central porch with curved gable:

outer 1st floor windows with pedimented dormer heads (other

windows bipartite), inner window swept-roofed; coped end

stacks; rear wing. Station: 2-storey "tower house" with

splayed base. Corbelled and crenellated parapet enclosing

gable; lower window barred, segmental-arched upper windows:

linking bay with round-arched door in lean-to porch: low

wings to flank and to rear. Slate roofs. Coped bullfaced

ashlar wall to roadside, swept down and railed towards

square, pyramid-capped gatepiers.