Post Office, Main Street, Penpont is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971. House, shop, post office.
Post Office, Main Street, Penpont
- WRENN ID
- tall-parapet-winter
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1971
- Type
- House, shop, post office
- OS grid reference
- NX 847 946
- Coordinates
- 55.23237, -3.81376
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Post Office on Main Street in Penpont is an earlier 19th century building that has been altered and is now divided into two houses. It is a two-storey corner block with a shop front. The exterior features whitewashed render that is lined to resemble ashlar, with contrasting painted ashlar margins. The north-west angle is canted at the ground level and has a two-leaf shop door, which is corbelled to a square above.
The west elevation, facing Keir Road, originally had three bays but was later extended with an additional bay in the late 20th century. This elevation has a shaped central wall-head gable with an apex stack, two shop windows (with the centre window possibly being an original door), and a door and window in the right bay. The fourth bay is sympathetic to the original design. All first-floor windows are sashes with eight-pane glazing.
The gabled elevation facing Main Street also features a shop window. There is a late 19th century full-height single bay addition to the east that extends the full length of the building, with the main roof swept over it. The building retains its original end stacks and is roofed with graded slates.
Local climate
Post Office, Main Street, Penpont 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 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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