Captain's Garden, 13 Main Street, including Sea Wall, Isle Of Whithorn is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 December 1979. House.

Captain's Garden, 13 Main Street, including Sea Wall, Isle Of Whithorn

WRENN ID
former-railing-bramble
Grade
B
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 477 364
Coordinates
54.70031, -4.36342
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Captain's Garden, located at 13 Main Street in the Isle of Whithorn, is a late 18th century, two-storey and attic, three-bay house. The exterior is made of painted rubble with raised margins and banded angles. The front features three bays, with a central door that has a fanlight above it. To the left, there is a single-storey brick lean-to wing that is obscured by a boundary wall. The right bay contains two single light windows, while the first floor has three windows. All windows are sash and case style with lying-pane, 8-pane glazing.

At the eaves, there are two gabled painted rubble dormers, each with 4-pane sash windows. The house has coped end stacks and slate roofs. The rear elevation facing the street has three windows on the ground floor and one on the first floor, along with a pair of similar dormers.

Local climate

Captain's Garden, 13 Main Street, including Sea Wall, Isle Of Whithorn 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 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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