78 Main Street, Isle Of Whithorn is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1972.

78 Main Street, Isle Of Whithorn

WRENN ID
eastward-dormer-ochre
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
20 July 1972
OS grid reference
NX 478 363
Coordinates
54.69947, -4.36206
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This building at 76 Main Street in Isle of Whithorn consists of a pair of late 18th century, two-storey, two-bay houses. The exterior is smoothly rendered with raised painted margins, while No 76 features raised angle margins and a basecourse.

Both houses have paired doorways with recessed modern doors. The windows are single light, sash and case style, with No 76 having 12-pane glazing and No 78 featuring plate glass with 2-pane glazing.

No 76 includes skews and a coped stack on the left side, and both houses have well-maintained graded slate roofs. No 78 has a stack on the right side, also covered with slate roofs.

Local climate

78 Main Street, Isle Of 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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