39 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. House, post office.
39 High Street, Sanquhar
- WRENN ID
- floating-moulding-merlin
- 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
- Type
- House, post office
- OS grid reference
- NS 781 098
- Coordinates
- 55.36772, -3.92349
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
39 High Street in Sanquhar is a mid-18th century, two-storey, three-bay house that features a rare bow window on the right side, which serves as the Post Office. The building is constructed from coursed painted rubble with a raised base course. The bow shop window has plain raised surrounds and a cornice. The main entrance door is located in the center, with an additional door leading to the Post Office on the right (northwest).
At the rear (southwest) of the property, there are various later outbuildings, including a former mailroom housed in a two-storey block from the mid-18th century, as well as smaller single-storey ranges likely built in the mid-19th century.
The roof is pitched and covered with grey slates. The windows are timber sash and case style, featuring later plate glass, with small pane glazing in the bow shopfront. The building also has cast-iron rainwater goods.
Local climate
39 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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