Post Office, 68 George Street, Whithorn is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1972. Post office. 3 related planning applications.
Post Office, 68 George Street, Whithorn
- WRENN ID
- heavy-wall-clover
- 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
- Post office
- OS grid reference
- NX 445 401
- Coordinates
- 54.7324, -4.41563
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Post Office located at 68 George Street in Whithorn dates from the late 18th to early 19th century. It is a two-storey building with four bays on the right and one bay on the left, featuring a large basket-arch pend at the extreme left. The structure is constructed of rubble walling, with raised painted margins around the windows and long and short angle quoins.
On the ground floor, there is a keystone pend at the extreme left, with a central door flanked by windows. The first floor has five sash and case windows, with plate glass on the ground floor and 15-pane windows above. The building has a raised base and eaves course.
The roof is covered with good graded slate, and there are sandstone skews, a corniced axial and end stack, and some octagonal cans. Additionally, there are four small metal-framed rooflights.
Local climate
Post Office, 68 George Street, Whithorn 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 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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