62 George Street, Whithorn is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1972. House. 2 related planning applications.

62 George Street, Whithorn

WRENN ID
muffled-portal-sable
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
20 July 1972
Type
House
Address
62 George Street, Whithorn, DG8 8PB
OS grid reference
NX 445 401
Coordinates
54.7326, -4.41559
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This building at 62 George Street in Whithorn dates from around 1800 and is a two-storey, three-bay house that previously included a shop on the ground floor. It is constructed of coursed rubble with painted raised margins and rusticated quoins. The entrance door is located in the center, flanked by enlarged shop windows. To the far right, there is a door pend entry. On the first floor, there are three single light windows. The first-floor windows are sash and case with plate glass glazing, while the ground floor windows have modern plate glass and paired sash and case designs.

The building features a moulded eaves cornice and end skews with block skewputts. It has tall corniced stacks with thackstanes, a sandstone ridge, and well-maintained graded slate roofs.

Local climate

62 George Street, Whithorn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,360 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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