72 Main Street, Glenluce is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 December 1979. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
72 Main Street, Glenluce
- WRENN ID
- sharp-facade-briar
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1979
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 72 Main Street, Glenluce, DG8 0PS
- OS grid reference
- NX 199 575
- Coordinates
- 54.88016, -4.80842
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This building at 72 Main Street in Glenluce is an earlier 19th-century cottage that is single storey with an attic and has three bays. It is constructed of painted rubble and features protruding cills.
On the north elevation facing Main Street, there is a fanlit door at the center, with windows located in the outer bays. Above these outer bays, there are gabled dormer windows. To the left of the central door is a blocked doorway that was formerly a shop entrance. The east and west elevations are gabled and blank. There is a painted brick gabled addition on the south elevation.
The windows have 4-pane glazing in sash and case style, except for the window to the left, which has fixed plate glass glazing from when it was a shop window. The building has no skews and features gablehead stacks, with the eastern stack made of painted rubble and the western stack rendered and lined. The roof is covered with purple slates.
Local climate
72 Main Street, Glenluce sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,310 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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