28 High Street, Wigtown is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1972. Cottage.
28 High Street, Wigtown
- WRENN ID
- night-gateway-mist
- 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
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- NX 431 551
- Coordinates
- 54.86682, -4.44576
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
28 High Street in Wigtown is an 18th-century single-storey cottage with a cellar, featuring two bays. The building is in poor condition and has a forestair leading up to the High Street. It is constructed of painted rubble and has a painted rubble forestair with iron railings. The door is located to the left and is flanked by a window, with a lower door on the outer left. The roof is covered with grey slates.
Local climate
28 High 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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