12 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.
12 North Main Street, Wigtown
- WRENN ID
- winter-cobalt-magpie
- 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 433 553
- Coordinates
- 54.86858, -4.44309
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
12 North Main Street in Wigtown is a house dating from the earlier to mid 19th century. It is a two-storey, three-bay building located on a corner site, with some later alterations. The exterior features painted rubble with rusticated, painted quoins and dressings, as well as base and lintel courses. The original door at the center is currently blocked. Large late 19th century shop windows have been added in the flanking bays. On the first floor, there are three regularly spaced plate glass sash and case windows. A door is located on the return elevation to the right, leading into a two-storey wing at the rear, which has two first-floor sash and case windows with 12-pane glazing. The building also has modern tiles, ashlar coped skews, and modern skylights.
Local climate
12 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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