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Latitude: 55.3119 / 55°18'42"N
Longitude: -3.2075 / 3°12'26"W
OS Eastings: 323456
OS Northings: 602641
OS Grid: NT234026
Mapcode National: GBR 6710.DN
Mapcode Global: WH6WP.PRT6
Plus Code: 9C7R8Q6V+Q2
Entry Name: Schuster House, Eskdalemuir Observatory
Listing Name: Eskdalemuir Observatory Schuster House (Both Dwellings)
Listing Date: 12 July 1988
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 342091
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB9776
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200342091
Location: Eskdalemuir
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Annandale East and Eskdale
Parish: Eskdalemuir
Traditional County: Dumfriesshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
W T Oldrieve. Dated 1908. Asymmetrical 2-storey large villa-type observatory residence, probably conceived as 2 houses. Arts
and Crafts movement with complex roof plan, gabled bays with
gables raised above main eaves level, skews run horizontally
above angles. Roughly-coursed and squared whinstone with
contrasting long and short dressings and arches to most openings.
Mainly sash windows with 12-pane glazing pattern. SE elevation
has 3 unequal gabled bays, that to left more massive, with
clasping angle strips and battered canted ground floor window;
main roof swept down at right over porch. 3-bay SW elevation,
the left gabled and with lead-roofed projecting ground floor
linked to entrance bay (door in re-entrant angle), semi-circular
window at ground, 3-light window below eaves; shaped gutter
brackets; coped and battered stacks; slate roofs.
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