Post Office, 27 Main Street, Mochrum is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 December 1979. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Post Office, 27 Main Street, Mochrum

WRENN ID
south-casement-khaki
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
Cottage
Address
Post Office, 27 Main Street, Mochrum, DG8 9LY
OS grid reference
NX 347 464
Coordinates
54.78607, -4.5711
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Also on this page: EPC · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

The Post Office at 27 Main Street in Mochrum is a single-storey and attic, three-bay cottage built in the mid to later 19th century, after 1848. It is located at the end of a terraced row. The south elevation features roughly squared and snecked rubble with painted rusticated quoins and painted rusticated rybated margins around the windows. The west elevation is made of painted rubble and has a gabled, blank appearance with two stones protruding from the gablehead.

On the south elevation facing Main Street, there is a doorway at the center with a painted architraved doorcase that has a cavetto-splayed surround, leading to a modern partly-glazed door. The outer bays contain windows, and there is a modern full-width box dormer window above.

The west elevation is gabled and blank, while the east elevation is adjoined to No 29 Main Street, which is listed separately. The windows are timber sash and case with plate glass glazing. The building features red sandstone coped skews and scrolled skewputts, shared with the east side. The painted rubble stacks have red sandstone rusticated quoins and copes, with a gablehead on the west side, also mutual to the east. The roof is covered with purple slates, and there are square cans on the east stack.

Local climate

Post Office, 27 Main Street, Mochrum sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,340 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 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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.

More on this building

Sign in or create a free account to unlock:

  • Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
  • No sale records on file
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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
Create free account

Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.

Similar buildings

The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.

Nearby listed buildings

  1. 31 Main Street, Mochrum Grade C 4 m
  2. 29 Main Street, Mochrum Grade C 8 m
  3. 35 Main Street, Mochrum Grade C 21 m
  4. 25 Main Street, Mochrum Grade C 35 m
  5. Norton Cottage, 4 Main Street, Mochrum Grade B 38 m
  6. 23 Main Street, Mochrum Grade C 43 m
  7. 21 Main Street, Mochrum Grade C 55 m
  8. Taigh Breac, 19 Main Street, Mochrum Grade C 69 m
  9. 17 Main Street, Mochrum Grade C 81 m
  10. 2 Main Street, Mochrum Grade B 84 m