70, 72, 74 Victoria Street, Newton Stewart is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 December 1979. House.
70, 72, 74 Victoria Street, Newton Stewart
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-casement-mallow
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1979
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NX 410 655
- Coordinates
- 54.95958, -4.48355
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
70, 72, and 74 Victoria Street in Newton Stewart is an earlier 19th-century, two-storey, three-bay house that includes a shop on the ground floor. The building features painted squared rubble walling, with painted smooth rusticated ashlar quoins and raised margins.
On the ground floor, there are deeply recessed panelled doors with fanlights in the outer bays. The centre features a three-bay shopfront with an elaborate timber fascia that has pilasters, a dentil cornice, scrolls, pediments, and acroteria. The central door is recessed and flanked by large plate glass windows.
On the first floor, there are three single light sash and case windows with two-pane plate glass glazing. The eaves have a bank and cornice with a blocking course. The ends have stepped skews and corniced end stacks with octagonal cans. The roofs are slate, and there are a pair of piended canted dormers along with a central piended dormer.
Local climate
70, 72, 74 Victoria Street, Newton Stewart sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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