H M Customs And Excise, 23 King Street, Newton Stewart is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 December 1979. House. 1 related planning application.

H M Customs And Excise, 23 King Street, Newton Stewart

WRENN ID
rusted-forge-willow
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
17 December 1979
Type
House
Address
H M Customs And Excise, 23 King Street, Newton Stewart, DG8 6DQ
OS grid reference
NX 410 659
Coordinates
54.96311, -4.485
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

H M Customs And Excise is an earlier 19th century, two-storey house with a symmetrical three-bay front. The front is made of granite ashlar, while the flanks and rear are constructed of rubble.

The entrance features a central Roman-Doric engaged column doorpiece topped with a heavy pediment. It has a modern door with a fanlight above. The windows are all single light, with replacement sash and case featuring a two-pane plate glass glazing pattern. The building has a moulded eaves cornice.

There are end skews with scroll skewputts and corniced rusticated end stacks. The roof is slate, with a small box dormer and a lean-to at the rear. Additionally, there is a window on the first floor of the right gable return.

Local climate

H M Customs And Excise, 23 King Street, Newton Stewart sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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