6 Johnstone Cottages, Johnstone Park, Dumfries

James Barbour; dated 1886. Built for charitable trust. 3

detached 2-storey villa-style blocks, Northern European

Gothic detailing with timber-framed gable heads and built

around large open green, latter bounded at W by low wall.

All built of stugged red ashlar with polished dressings;

mullioned windows, mostly with depressed ogee hood-moulds,

some canted windows; gabled shallow porches; main gabled bays cavetto-corbelled above ground floor and have Aesthetic

movement terracotta panels central. Inner (E) block with main

central gable, recessed 3-bay ranges either side have

central porches and outer wall-head gables; L-plan N and S

detached blocks with similarly treated 3-bay range adjoining

E end of each main gable, return (W) elevations each with 3

wall-head gables. Plain barge boards; fluted stacks; roofs

all covered with graded slates.