17 St John Street, Creetown is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1971. House. 2 related planning applications.

17 St John Street, Creetown

WRENN ID
over-nave-khaki
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
4 November 1971
Type
House
Address
17 St John Street, Creetown, DG8 7JA
OS grid reference
NX 475 588
Coordinates
54.90148, -4.37887
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This is a two-storey, three-bay house located at 17 St John Street in Creetown, dating from around 1800. The building is constructed of painted rubble with a raised painted basecourse and window margins. It features a central door and has single light windows, which are sash and case with a plate glass glazing pattern. The house has coped end stacks and graded slate roofs, along with small rooflights. The rainwater goods are made of cast iron, and there is a sandstone ridge. At the rear, there is a small single-storey lean-to wing also made of painted rubble.

Local climate

17 St John Street, Creetown 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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