The Grapes Hotel, 10 George Street, Whithorn is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1972. Hotel.
The Grapes Hotel, 10 George Street, Whithorn
- WRENN ID
- standing-niche-onyx
- 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
- Hotel
- OS grid reference
- NX 446 403
- Coordinates
- 54.73403, -4.41458
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Grapes Hotel, located at 10 George Street in Whithorn, dates from around 1800 and consists of two storeys with a layout of three plus two bays. The left section of the building is the least altered, featuring harled walls with painted raised margins and angles. The left house has a central doorway with a margined cornice, a double-leaf panelled door, and a fanlight above. All windows are single light, sash and case style with 12-pane glazing. The house on the right has two enlarged plate glass sash and case windows on the ground floor.
The first floor has modern and uPVC top hopper windows. The building has an eaves bank and end skews, with tall margined and corniced end and axial stacks, some topped with octagonal cans, and a tiled roof.
At the rear, there are several two-storey additions from the 19th century.
Local climate
The Grapes Hotel, 10 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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