Friar's Carse
House (19th Century), Tower (16th Century)
Site Name Friar's Carse
Classification House (19th Century), Tower (16th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Friarscarse; Glenriddel
Canmore ID 65948
Site Number NX98SW 60
NGR NX 92554 84993
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/65948
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Dunscore
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Nithsdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
NX98SW 60.00 NX 92554 84993
NX98SW 60.01 NX 92463 84869 Stables, North East Range and Beech Cottage
NX98SW 60.02 NX 92454 84855 Stables, South East Range
NX98SW 60.03 NX 92443 84874 Stables, North West Range
NMRS REFERENCE:
Convlescent home for P.O workers
EXTERNAL REFERENCE:
National Library of Scotland:
Earnock MSS/1, no.75 - 1 engraving
Photographic Survey (April 1959)
Photographs by the Scottish National Buildings Record in April 1959.
Standing Building Recording (7 April 2017)
NX 92554 84993 A basic standing building survey was undertaken, 7 April 2017, of the stable block in advance of the proposed conversion of the N wing to a residential unit. The stable block was built as a courtyard steading in the late 18th century or early 19th century and was substantially rebuilt in the 1870s, when the adjacent Friars Carse House was remodelled. The only elements surviving from the original building were the W wing and the lower sections of the N and W walls of the N wing. The W gable of the W wing also incorporates part of an earlier but undated wall indicating that there was a structure on site before the steading was built. The E and S wings of the stable block probably date from the remodelling in the 1870s, as do the doocot and pend in the W wing; it seems that that the N wing was substantially rebuilt at the same time. Two wooden stalls survive in one of the rooms in the E wing and the outlines of four box stalls remain in the N wing.
Archive: NRHE (intended)
Funder: Post Office Fellowship of Remembrance
John Pickin
(Source: DES Vol 19)
