20 North Main Street, Wigtown is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 December 1979. House. 1 related planning application.

20 North Main Street, Wigtown

WRENN ID
cold-gateway-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
Address
20 North Main Street, Wigtown, DG8 9HL
OS grid reference
NX 432 553
Coordinates
54.86806, -4.44378
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

20 North Main Street in Wigtown is a two-storey, three-bay house built in 1832, which includes a shop on the ground floor. The building is rendered and features painted ashlar margins, a base, a band, cill, and eaves courses. The central door has a letterbox fanlight and is flanked by shop windows, with a secondary door located to the outer left. On the first floor, there are three regular windows, which have modern glazing and decorative cast-iron window guards. The roof is tiled and includes two later piend-roofed dormers, with mutual gable stacks. At the rear, there is a single-storey wing with a ruberoid roof. The property also features cast-iron rainwater goods and has an inscribed marriage tablet dated 1832.

Local climate

20 North Main Street, Wigtown sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,370 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 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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