The Granite House, 33 North Main Street, Wigtown is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1972. House.

The Granite House, 33 North Main Street, Wigtown

WRENN ID
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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
20 July 1972
Type
House
OS grid reference
NX 432 552
Coordinates
54.8674, -4.44472
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Granite House, located at 33 North Main Street in Wigtown, is an earlier 19th century, two-storey, three-bay house with a shop on the ground floor, situated in a terraced street. The building features painted rubble with ashlar dressings. The shop entrance is centrally located and is flanked by large shop windows, with an additional door on the outer left. On the first floor, there are three regularly spaced windows that are grouped towards the centre, featuring plate glass glazing in sash and case style. The house has ashlar coped skews and broad granite mutual gable stacks with cans. The roof is modern and covered with pantiles, and there is a regrettable cedar-lined box dormer.

Local climate

The Granite House, 33 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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