5 Main Street, Mochrum is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 December 1979. Cottage.
5 Main Street, Mochrum
- WRENN ID
- south-slate-mist
- 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
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- NX 346 463
- Coordinates
- 54.78508, -4.57252
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
5 Main Street in Mochrum is a cottage dating from the early to earlier 19th century. It is a single-storey building with an attic and features three bays, arranged as two on the left and one on the right, and includes a shop. The exterior is finished in painted rubble.
On the east elevation facing Main Street, there is a pend entrance to the left, leading to a panelled door for the cottage that is set back. To the right within the pend is the door to the shop. The windows are located in the centre and right bays, with the centre bay previously having a door. There is a canted and piended dormer window at the centre, which was added after 1910.
The south elevation is attached to No 3 Main Street, and the north elevation is adjoined to No 7 Main Street, both of which are listed separately.
The windows feature plate glass glazing set in timber sash and case frames. The building has granite coped mutual skews, broad painted rubble mutual stacks, and is covered with graded grey slates.
Local climate
5 Main Street, Mochrum sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,340 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 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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