Post Office, 27 South Main Street, Wigtown is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 January 1991. House. 3 related planning applications.

Post Office, 27 South Main Street, Wigtown

WRENN ID
fading-baluster-river
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
30 January 1991
Type
House
Address
Post Office, 27 South Main Street, Wigtown, DG8 9HG
OS grid reference
NX 432 552
Coordinates
54.86745, -4.44371
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Post Office at 27 South Main Street in Wigtown is an early 19th-century, two-storey, three-bay house that has undergone later alterations, including the addition of a shop at ground level. The exterior is dry-dashed with margins. The shop front, located to the right, features a tripartite design with a central door flanked by modern windows. To the left, there are two additional doors. The first floor has three evenly spaced windows, which are fitted with plate glass glazing in sash and case style. The roof is covered with graduated grey slates and includes two small box dormers. The building has broad mutual gable stacks topped with octagonal cans.

Local climate

Post Office, 27 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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