71 High Street, Sanquhar is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971.
71 High Street, Sanquhar
- WRENN ID
- hollow-arch-weasel
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1971
- OS grid reference
- NS 782 098
- Coordinates
- 55.36712, -3.92179
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
73 High Street in Sanquhar is a building dating from the mid to later 18th century. It has two storeys and features five bays. The exterior is made of coursed squared rubble with chamfered ashlar margins, all of which is painted. The building has a recessed central panelled door, with an altered shop door and window to the left. The remaining windows are plate glass sashes. Architectural details include an eaves and lintel band, a cornice, straight skews, end stacks, and a slate roof. The east gable is pebble-dashed, and there is a moulded cornice on the rear elevation. Additionally, there is a lean-to and a low wing, and a cobbled pathway runs northwards.
Local climate
71 High Street, Sanquhar 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 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 64 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 41 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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