18 North Main Street, Wigtown is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1972. House.

18 North Main Street, Wigtown

WRENN ID
sombre-latch-pigeon
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
20 July 1972
Type
House
Address
18 North Main Street, Wigtown, DG8 9HL
OS grid reference
NX 432 553
Coordinates
54.86816, -4.44365
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

18 North Main Street in Wigtown is a mid-19th century, two-storey terraced house that includes a shop on the ground floor. The building features an irregular three-bay frontage with harled walling and raised margins. On the right side, there is a granite Roman Doric pedimented doorpiece leading to a pend, while on the left, shop windows flank the shop door. The first floor has three sash and case windows with plate glass glazing. The roof is covered with felt tiles and has end skews, along with corniced end stacks and a sandstone ridge. At the rear, there is a two-storey wing.

Local climate

18 North 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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