George Street, The Grapes Hotel Whithorn, Scotland
Listed Building Data
George Street, The Grapes Hotel has been designated a scheduled monument in Scotland with the following information. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- Historic Scotland ID
- 388695 (entity ID)
- Building ID
- 42221
- Canmore ID
- 216882
- Category
- C
- Name
- George Street, the Grapes Hotel
- Parish
- Whithorn
- County
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Easting
- 244631
- Northing
- 540347
- Date Listed
- 20 July 1972
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
Circa 1800. 2-storey, 3 plus 2-bay houses now forming hotel. 3-bays to left least altered. Harled walls with painted raised margins and angles. To left house, central margined corniced doorway, double-leaf panelled door, fanlight. All windows single light, all sash and case with 12-pane glazing. House to right now with 2 enlarged plate glass sash and case windows to ground. Modern and uPVC top hopper windows at 1st. Eaves bank, end skews. Tall margined and corniced end and axial stacks, some octagonal cans, tile roof. To rear, numerous 2-storey 19th century additions.
Listed Building Statement of Special Interest
Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
A late 18th or early 19th century former hotel, occupying a prominent position at the heart of Whithorn. A building is shown at this position on Ainslie's map of 1782. To the rear of the hotel are stables and a number of other associated outbuildings.
Listed Building References
Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
shown as Grapes Hotel on 1st edition OS map (1850). John Ainslie, A Map of the County of Wigtown, 1782.
