Post Office, Main Street, Penpont is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971. House.

Post Office, Main Street, Penpont

WRENN ID
open-sill-lichen
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
3 August 1971
Type
House
OS grid reference
NX 847 946
Coordinates
55.23242, -3.81406
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Post Office on Main Street in Penpont is a mid-19th century, two-storey, three-bay corner house that includes a shop. The northeast corner is canted at the ground level, featuring a shop door that is corbelled to a square above. The building has stugged ashlar on the Main Street elevation, while the rest is constructed of rubble, all of which is painted. The Main Street side has three bays with a central door, and there is a two-bay elevation facing Keir Road. The windows are made of plate glass, with sash windows on the first floor. The building has corniced end stacks and a piended roof covered with graded slates. A low rear wing is present but is not original to the structure.

Local climate

Post Office, Main Street, Penpont 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 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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