Weighbridge, Harbour Office, Market Street, Stranraer is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 February 2004. Harbour office.
Weighbridge, Harbour Office, Market Street, Stranraer
- WRENN ID
- third-fireplace-bittern
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 February 2004
- Type
- Harbour office
- OS grid reference
- NX 058 610
- Coordinates
- 54.90605, -5.03019
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Weighbridge and Harbour Office on Market Street in Stranraer is a single-storey building from the 1930s, designed in a square plan with a flat roof. It features an Art Deco clock tower on the south side and a bay window on the west. The exterior is made of sandstone ashlar, with a deep base course and projecting eaves course.
The clock tower, which slightly projects from the north elevation, has raised corner margins, a stepped upper section, long slit windows, and an Art Deco clock face on each side. There is a later timber boarded door at the base of the tower, set within a broad architrave, and a tablet above that depicts a three-masted ship along with the partly corroded motto ?-ISSIMA STATIO in a raised architrave frame. Small windows flank the tower, while large windows are present on the other elevations, including the bay window on the west and a recessed bowed window on the north.
The windows feature small-pane glazing in metal-framed casements, and the building has a flat roof. Additionally, there is a cast-iron Avery weighing machine located to the west of the harbour office.
Local climate
Weighbridge, Harbour Office, Market Street, Stranraer sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% 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 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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