6 George Street, Whithorn is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1972. House. 3 related planning applications.

6 George Street, Whithorn

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
20 July 1972
Type
House
Address
6 George Street, Whithorn, DG8 8NY
OS grid reference
NX 446 403
Coordinates
54.73418, -4.41449
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

6 George Street in Whithorn is an early 19th-century, two-storey, three-bay house. The exterior is harled with painted raised margins and angles. It features a central doorway that has reeded architraves and a recessed door with a fanlight above. All the windows are architraved, and they are sash and case with plate glass glazing.

The house has end skews with skewputts and coped end stacks that include thackstanes. The ridge is made of sandstone, and the roofs are covered with slate.

Local climate

6 George Street, 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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