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Beach Cottage

A Category B Listed Building in Leswalt, Dumfries and Galloway

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Coordinates

Latitude: 54.8929 / 54°53'34"N

Longitude: -5.1598 / 5°9'35"W

OS Eastings: 197463

OS Northings: 559926

OS Grid: NW974599

Mapcode National: GBR FHMS.5BV

Mapcode Global: WH1R6.Q85V

Plus Code: 9C6PVRVR+53

Entry Name: Beach Cottage

Listing Name: Beach Lodge, with Boundary Walls

Listing Date: 25 February 1994

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 342521

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB10117

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200342521

Location: Leswalt

County: Dumfries and Galloway

Electoral Ward: Stranraer and the Rhins

Parish: Leswalt

Traditional County: Wigtownshire

Tagged with: Cottage

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Description

Pre 1848. Single storey and attic, gabled cottage. Pinned rubble. Painted ashlar chamfered margins and mullions. Narrow lights to windows. Overhanging eaves.

W ELEVATION: 3-bay. Gabled bay advanced at centre; door (modern) to S return; tripartite window in ashlar coped advanced panel at ground floor to W, bipartite window above in gablehead. Bipartite windows in outer bays.

S ELEVATION: tripartite window in ashlar coped advanced panel at ground floor; bipartite window above in gablehead.

N ELEVATION: bipartite window at ground floor and above in gablehead.

E ELEVATION: small modern porch adjoined to right. Passage

to outer right, linking cottage to small lower gabled wing to NE

(former servants' quarters, see below).

Very small, small-pane glazing: 12-pane glazing to each light in sash and case windows at ground floor; 6-pane glazing in casement windows to attic. Ashlar corniced rubble stacks flanking centre of ridge. Purple slates.

WING TO NE: door to left and 2-light window to right to S. 2-

light window to W. Gablehead stack to E.

BOUNDARY WALLS: rubble coped rubble wall enclosing square-plan garden to W.

Statement of Interest

Beach Lodge is situated at Larbrax Bay. Beach Lodge has also been known as Beach Cottage. The building is marked on the OS Map of 1847-48 as "Bathing Cottage"; it is again marked as "Bathing Cottage" on the OS Map of 1906-07. Beach Lodge was originally used for recreation purposes by the Lochnaw Estate.

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