25 St John Street, Whithorn is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 December 1979. House.

25 St John Street, Whithorn

WRENN ID
peeling-cloister-stoat
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
OS grid reference
NX 446 405
Coordinates
54.73593, -4.41478
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This is a 2-storey, 3-bay house located at 25 St John Street in Whithorn, dating from around 1800. The building features modern harled walls with raised painted margins and angles. A central doorway leads to a recessed door. The windows are single light, sash and case, with 4-pane glazing on the ground floor and 12-pane glazing on the first floor. The house has end skews and end coped stacks with thackstanes, along with a sandstone ridge and slate roofs. The flanks and rear are finished in painted rubble.

Local climate

25 St John 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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