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

17 North Main Street, Wigtown

WRENN ID
iron-newel-dawn
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
17 December 1979
Type
Terraced house
OS grid reference
NX 432 553
Coordinates
54.86824, -4.44356
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

17 North Main Street in Wigtown is a terraced house built in the later 19th century. It has two storeys and an attic, featuring a three-bay design with a shopfront on the ground floor. The ground floor is made of bull-faced granite, while the first floor is constructed from risticated granite with smooth raised margins around the windows and bull-faced risticated quoins. The ground floor has modern plate-glass shop windows flanking the entrance door. On the first floor, there are three single light sash and case windows with 12-pane glazing. The building has a cornice above the ground floor, a band course at the eaves, an eaves cornice, and a blocking course. The roofs are slate, and there are two timber barge-boarded dormers with finials and plate glass sashes. The skews are saw-toothed, and there are corniced bull-faced granite stacks at each end. At the rear, there is a three-storey wing accessed via a pend, with a single-storey addition beyond. The entrance is bull-faced and splayed.

Local climate

17 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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