12 High Street, Wigtown is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 December 1979. House. 1 related planning application.
12 High Street, Wigtown
- WRENN ID
- eastward-wall-dale
- 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
- House
- OS grid reference
- NX 431 552
- Coordinates
- 54.867, -4.44507
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
12 High Street in Wigtown is a mid-19th century, two-storey, three-bay house that has been subdivided. The exterior features painted render with ashlar dressings and stop-chamfered arrises to the lintels. The central door is flanked by two additional modern doors. The outer bays have enlarged 19th century windows, likely former shop windows. Each first-floor bay has a window that is widely spaced. The windows are plate glass sash and case, with two modern windows in the outer left bay (No 10). The roof of No 12 is covered with grey slates, while No 10 has rubberoid roofing. The building has ashlar coped mutual gable skews with stacks and a dividing skew.
Local climate
12 High 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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