28 Main Street, Isle Of Whithorn is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 March 1993. Houses.

28 Main Street, Isle Of Whithorn

WRENN ID
eternal-arch-cream
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
25 March 1993
Type
Houses
OS grid reference
NX 476 365
Coordinates
54.70079, -4.36643
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

28 Main Street in Isle of Whithorn is an early 19th-century building consisting of two pairs of two-bay, two-storey houses. The exterior features painted rubble walling with painted raised margins and angles. Each pair has doorways located at the center, and all windows are single light, sash and case with a 10-pane lying-pane glazing pattern. On the first floor, the windows are located in the outer bays.

The building has coped end stacks topped with octagonal cans. The houses numbered 24 and 26 include a pair of modern box dormers, while 28 and 30 have skylights. Most of the roofs are covered with slate, except for number 26, which has modern tiles.

Local climate

28 Main Street, Isle Of 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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