22 South Main Street, Wigtown is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1972. House.
22 South Main Street, Wigtown
- WRENN ID
- over-frieze-jet
- Grade
- B
- 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 433 552
- Coordinates
- 54.86768, -4.4431
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This building, located at 22 South Main Street in Wigtown, dates from around 1800 and is a two-storey, three-bay house featuring a prominent pedimented central bay. The exterior is finished with dry-wash walling that has raised angles and window margins. On the far left, there is a Doric columned porch that exhibits heavy entasis. The entrance includes a well-crafted recessed panelled door, although the fanlight above it has been blocked. All windows are single light, sash and case style, with plate glass glazing. The house has an eaves cornice and a blocking course, with raised painted end skews. The corniced rusticated end stacks include some octagonal cans. The roof is covered with Rubberoid and features skylights, while the building is equipped with cast-iron rainwater goods. At the rear, there is a two-storey wing with a broad gable.
Local climate
22 South 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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