88 Main Street, Isle Of Whithorn is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1972. House.

88 Main Street, Isle Of Whithorn

WRENN ID
half-tallow-elder
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
20 July 1972
Type
House
OS grid reference
NX 479 363
Coordinates
54.6992, -4.36171
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

88 Main Street in Isle of Whithorn is an early 19th-century house that stands two stories high with an attic. The building features three bays and is constructed of rubble, with modern dormer alterations. The exterior is painted rubble with raised painted margins and chamfered arrises. There is a central doorway with a modern door. All the windows are single light, fitted with modern two-pane plate glass, and have a narrow pivoted top pane.

The house has end skews and tall coped end stacks that have been largely rebuilt and rendered, complete with thackstanes. The roofs are slate, and there is a large tile-hung box dormer. The flank of the building is harled, and at the rear, there is another large box dormer.

Local climate

88 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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