Wetswood, London Road, Stranraer is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 1998. Villa. 3 related planning applications.
Wetswood, London Road, Stranraer
- WRENN ID
- steep-foundation-crow
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1998
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- Wetswood, London Road, Stranraer, DG9 8BS
- OS grid reference
- NX 069 606
- Coordinates
- 54.90339, -5.0118
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Wetswood is a gabled villa located on London Road in Stranraer, built in 1876. This two-storey building features an asymmetrical plan and is constructed from whinstone with sandstone ashlar dressings. It has a base course and decorative timber barge boards on the gables, along with overhanging timber eaves. The windows have long and short ashlar surrounds and are arranged in uncanted openings.
On the north elevation, which serves as the entrance, there is a central entrance with a consoled doorpiece that has elaborate carved strapwork decoration. The entrance includes a recessed timber door and a fanlight above it. To the first floor, there is a single shoulder-arched window. The outer right side has a canted bay with regular fenestration, and a first-floor window that breaks the eaves to form a gable. The left side features shoulder-arched windows in the canted bay at ground level, and a bipartite window on the first floor that also breaks the eaves to form a gablehead, alongside a blank panel.
The south elevation, or rear, has undergone extensive alterations. The building has plate glass timber sash and case windows, a grey slate roof with corniced stacks and circular cans, and cast-iron rainwater goods.
The property is also accompanied by boundary walls that are coped, square-plan gatepiers with semi-circular caps, and decorative railings.
Local climate
Wetswood, 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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- Related listed building consents — 3 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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