29 And 30 North Main Street, Wigtown is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 December 1979. House, cottage. 5 related planning applications.
29 And 30 North Main Street, Wigtown
- WRENN ID
- riven-steel-gold
- 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, cottage
- Address
- 29 And 30 North Main Street, Wigtown, DG8 9HJ
- OS grid reference
- NX 432 552
- Coordinates
- 54.86752, -4.4445
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
29 and 30 North Main Street in Wigtown is a late 18th century building consisting of two 2-storey houses arranged at right angles, with one house forming part of a terrace on North Main Street, and a single-storey, 3-bay cottage. The exterior is made of rubble and harled on the south and east elevations, featuring painted margins.
On the south-east elevation, there is a central door flanked by 19th century shop windows, with a pend to the outer right that has granite setts. The first floor has three windows.
At the rear, the house at right angles has a window above the pend. This rear house features a door flanked by windows on the ground floor to the east and three first-floor windows. The single-storey cottage is attached to the gable of the north end elevation, also featuring a door flanked by windows. The windows throughout are sash and case style. The building has end and mutual gable stacks and coped skews, with a Rubberoid roof.
Local climate
29 And 30 North Main 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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