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Field Visit
Date 26 June 1928
Event ID 1099428
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1099428
Kirkgate, Alloa.
Tobias Bauchop, master builder and architect, who was connected with the building of Kinross House c. 1686 and of the steeple of the Town House of Dumfries (1), c. 1707, built this house in c. 1695 for his own occupation. It is oblong on plan and two storeys in height. The front is built of ashlar with rusticated quoins, and, though simply treated, is well proportioned, while the detail is carefully wrought. The entrance, centred in the front, has been altered. The windows have delicately moulded architraves with lugs.
SUNDIAL. Between the two upper windows is a fine projecting sundial with a carved top, borne on a grotesque head. Below the dial a garland encloses a cartouche bearing the date 1695 and the initials T.B. and M.L.
RCAHMS 1933, visited 26 June 1928.
(1) Inventory, Dumfriesshire, No. 127.
