Basic Site Details
| Name: | Post Office Eastriggs |
| Town, district or village: | Eastriggs |
| City or county: | Dumfriesshire |
| Country: | Scotland |
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Building Type Classification
| The building is classified under the following categories: | |||
| Classification | Original classification? | Notes | |
 | Post office | ||
Street Addresses
| The following street addresses are associated with this building: | |||
| Address | Main entrance? | Notes | |
| Annan Road | ||
Events
| The following date-based events are associated with this building: | ||||
| From | To | Event type | Notes | |
| 1916 | 1918 | Build/construction | |
People
Design and Construction
| The following individuals or organisations have carried out design/construction work. Where architects or practices worked together, matching letters appear beside their names in the Partnership Group column. | ||||||
| Name | Role | Partnership Group | From | To | Notes | |
| Raymond Unwin | 1916 | 1918 | Design carried out by (one of) a group of architects acting under the directorship of Raymond Unwin | ||
Clients
| The following individuals or organisations have commissioned work on this building/design: | ||
| Name | Notes | |
| Explosives Department of the Ministry of Munitions. | |
Related Buildings, Structures and Designs
Parent Structure and Site
| This structure is related to the following parent structure or site (click the item to view details): | ||
| Building name | Notes | |
| Eastriggs Garden Village | Built to accommodated munitions workers at the nearby factories. The chief township at Gretna included housing for men and women together with, laundry, bakery, and central kitchen for distributing food to the hostels, and mess rooms for the factory hands. The subsidiary township of Eastriggs provided accommodation for labour living near the western end of the munitioms factory, and not far from Dornock Station Architect Raymond Unwin FRIBA. Chief Assistant architect S. B. Russell. FRIBA Resident architect Courtney M. Crickmer, F.R.I.B.A., Others. C E Simmons, Geoffrey Lucas, H A Saul, R. S. Bowers, A. O Cave and Harold Burgess. |
References
Periodical References
| The following periodicals contain references to this building: | |||||
| Periodical Name | Date | Edition | Publisher | Notes | |
| Building News | 13 November 1918 | p332 and illustrations | ||