4 South Main Street And Garden Wall, Wigtown is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1972. House.
4 South Main Street And Garden Wall, Wigtown
- WRENN ID
- carved-beam-ochre
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 July 1972
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NX 434 553
- Coordinates
- 54.86852, -4.44113
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
4 South Main Street is an earlier 19th century, two-storey L-plan house featuring a four-bay front facing South Main Street. The exterior is constructed of rubble walling with painted raised margins. There are steps with cast-iron balusters leading to a projecting Doric entrance, which is off-centre to the right and includes a panelled door with a fanlight above. The house has single light windows that are sash and case with plate glass glazing. The gable over the two left bays is topped with a tall corniced apex stack that has octagonal cans. The building has end skews, skewputts, and slate roofs, along with traditional rooflights. On the east gable, there are two first-floor windows. Additionally, there is a coped rubble garden wall that features ball-finials.
Local climate
4 South Main Street And Garden Wall, 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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