Post Office, High Street, Moffat is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 February 1981. Post office.

Post Office, High Street, Moffat

WRENN ID
roaming-belfry-yarrow
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
23 February 1981
Type
Post office
OS grid reference
NT 084 053
Coordinates
55.33363, -3.44419
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Post Office on High Street in Moffat is a late 19th century building that stands three stories tall with a symmetrical three-bay front above the ground floor. The structure features coursers with ashlar dressings. There is a pilastered doorpiece leading to the entrance for the upper floors. The ground floor includes a central door flanked by two windows. The first-floor windows are pilastered and have pediments, with central lights only in the outer tripartite windows. The pediments above the second-floor windows extend over the eaves. The roof is covered with slate.

Local climate

Post Office, High Street, Moffat sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,300 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 64 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 40 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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