70 St John Street, Whithorn is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 March 1993. House.

70 St John Street, Whithorn

WRENN ID
tall-tin-candle
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
25 March 1993
Type
House
OS grid reference
NX 446 403
Coordinates
54.7344, -4.41455
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

70 St John Street in Whithorn is a house dating from the early to mid 19th century. It is two stories high and has three bays. The building is constructed of rubble with painted ashlar margins. The entrance is located at the center and features a door with a letterbox fanlight above it. On either side of the door are windows, and there are additional windows in each bay on the first floor. The windows are sash and case style, with a 4-pane glazing pattern. The roof is piended and includes small rooflights.

Local climate

70 St John Street, 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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