6 Academy Street, Stranraer is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 December 1979. Villa.
6 Academy Street, Stranraer
- WRENN ID
- inner-oriel-candle
- 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
- Villa
- OS grid reference
- NX 062 604
- Coordinates
- 54.90093, -5.02369
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This mid-19th century villa located at 6 Academy Street in Stranraer features a two-storey, three-bay rectangular plan. The exterior is finished in painted harl and includes a base course and architraved windows.
On the southeast elevation, there is a pilastered and corniced entrance doorway with a four-panel timber door and a letterbox fanlight. Above the entrance, a single window is positioned on the first floor, with additional windows on both floors of the flanking bays. To the outer right, there is a modern extension with a flat roof.
The villa has four-pane timber sash and case glazing, and the roof has been replaced with concrete tiles. There is a coped stack to the east and circular cans.
The interior was not seen in 1997. The property is complemented by low boundary walls that feature original railings and a gate at the central pedestrian entrance.
Local climate
6 Academy Street, Stranraer sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% 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 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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