Low Isle, 38 Main Street, Isle Of Whithorn is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 April 1989. House.

Low Isle, 38 Main Street, Isle Of Whithorn

WRENN ID
moated-threshold-thrush
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
26 April 1989
Type
House
OS grid reference
NX 476 365
Coordinates
54.70083, -4.3652
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Low Isle is a substantial late 18th century, 2-storey, 4-bay house located on Main Street in Isle of Whithorn. The building features modern roughcast walls with painted raised margins, angles, and a base course.

At the center, there are gabled bays with a modern door to the right, flanked by a window. Above, there are two first-floor windows and a blind, keystoned oculus in the gable head. Each outer bay has a window on both floors. The sash and case windows have a 4-pane glazing pattern. The house is topped with ashlar coped skews, board end stacks, and a nepus gable stack, all under a grey slate roof.

Local climate

Low Isle, 38 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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