74 High Street, Sanquhar is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971.
74 High Street, Sanquhar
- WRENN ID
- frozen-pilaster-ebony
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1971
- OS grid reference
- NS 782 098
- Coordinates
- 55.36709, -3.92236
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
76 High Street in Sanquhar is an earlier 19th-century building featuring two storeys and three bays, with an additional first-floor bay to the left over a square-headed pend. The exterior is made of painted droved ashlar. There are two inner doors, each with a rectangular fanlight, and the outer shop windows have panelled jambs, a shallow bowed cornice, and a fluted frieze. The first floor has a cill band and 4-pane sash windows. The building also has a cornice, end stacks, and a slate roof.
Local climate
74 High Street, Sanquhar 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 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 64 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 41 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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