Merslaugh, 47 London Road, Stranraer is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 December 1979. 1 related planning application.
Merslaugh, 47 London Road, Stranraer
- WRENN ID
- dusted-chimney-winter
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1979
- OS grid reference
- NX 064 606
- Coordinates
- 54.90309, -5.02018
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Wenova, located at 45 London Road in Stranraer, is a mid-19th century, terraced pair of classical houses arranged in an L-plan. The houses are two stories tall and have five bays, featuring a painted render finish with painted margins around the openings and a pilastered doorpiece.
On the north elevation, the entrance doorway is positioned to the outer left and is flanked by single windows. There is another entrance doorway located in the penultimate bay to the right, with a single window to the outer right. The first floor has a regular arrangement of windows.
The windows are 2-pane timber sash and case glazing. The roof is covered with grey slate, with a stone skew to the east and broad coped rendered gablehead stacks that have circular cans.
The interior was not seen in 1997.
The property is complemented by boundary walls, gatepiers, gates, and railings. The boundary wall is made of painted, coped rubble, with octagonal gatepiers and caps at the central pedestrian entrances, along with decorative cast-iron gates and railings.
Local climate
Merslaugh, 47 London Road, Stranraer sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% 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 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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