Old Station House, Harbour Road, Wigtown is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1972. Prison.
Old Station House, Harbour Road, Wigtown
- WRENN ID
- gilded-pier-root
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 July 1972
- Type
- Prison
- OS grid reference
- NX 434 550
- Coordinates
- 54.8658, -4.44048
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Old Station House, located on Harbour Road in Wigtown, was built between 1846 and 1848 by Thomas Brown Junior. This former county jail and police station is designed in the Neo-Tudor style and constructed from rubble with polished red sandstone angles and margins. The building has a T-plan layout and consists of two storeys plus an attic, with offices at the front and the prison located at the rear.
The front elevation features a projecting jamb in the shape of a T, with tall, thin outer bays flanking a gabled centre. Originally, the centre had symmetrical windows, but one has been enlarged on the first floor. The ground floor has a single bipartite window, while the first floor includes two single lights and a wide bipartite window, along with a small attic light. All windows are hoodmoulded, sash and case with plate glass glazing. The outer bays and the gable apex are topped with tall octagonal ashlar stacks.
At the rear, there is a five-bay, two-storey block with cells on the ground floor, which are lit by small rectangular windows positioned high up. The first floor has five single light windows, also sash and case, with a mix of two and link walls on the sides, featuring sandstone dressings. There is a pedestrian gate to the left and a vehicular opening to the right, with 12-pane glazing. The end skews and tall octagonal ashlar stacks are present, and the rubble walls support decorative cast-iron railings along with rusticated granite gatepiers.
Local climate
Old Station House, Harbour Road, 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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