11 and 13 High Street, Sanquhar is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 August 1987. House. 2 related planning applications.
11 and 13 High Street, Sanquhar
- WRENN ID
- former-soffit-swift
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 21 August 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- 11 and 13 High Street, Sanquhar, DG4 6BL
- OS grid reference
- NS 781 099
- Coordinates
- 55.36804, -3.92464
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
11 and 13 High Street in Sanquhar are two adjoining narrow two-storey houses, each featuring a shop on the ground floor and a single window on the first floor facing High Street. The buildings are constructed of line-pointed rubble with ashlar margins, and the flank facing St Mary Street is rendered, all painted. They have a single corniced end stack on the east side, while other stacks have been removed, and they are topped with slate roofs. No. 9 dates from the mid-18th century and has 19th-century alterations, including single shop windows on either side of an inner door and a single inscribed cavetto skewputt incorporated into the design. Nos. 11 and 13 are from the mid-19th century and have undergone alterations, featuring a door on the left side leading to a flat above, with modern shop fittings occupying the rest of the ground floor.
Local climate
11 and 13 High Street, Sanquhar 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 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 64 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 41 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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