68 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. 1 related planning application.

68 Main Street, Isle Of Whithorn

WRENN ID
lost-tower-onyx
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
20 July 1972
Address
68 Main Street, Isle Of Whithorn, DG8 8LG
OS grid reference
NX 478 364
Coordinates
54.69969, -4.36231
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

66 Main Street in Isle of Whithorn is an early 19th-century, two-storey row of three houses. Number 66 features modern roughcast walling with painted raised margins. It has a door on the left and single light windows on both the ground and first floors, which are fitted with modern two-pane plate glass pivot windows. The building has coped end stacks and a slate roof.

Numbers 68 and 70 are a pair of houses. Number 68 is roughcast, while number 70 is made of painted rubble with a raised banded angle on the right, both having raised painted margins. They share paired central panelled doors, with number 70 also featuring a fanlight. All windows are single light, with number 68 having sash and case windows with plate glass and two-pane glazing, while number 70 has one-pane lying-pane glazing. The centre window of number 70 includes a timber mullion and transom with lying-pane glazing. Both houses have tall coped end stacks and two small modern flat-roofed box dormers, topped with slate roofs.

Local climate

68 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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