Albert House, 39 Albert Street, Newton Stewart is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 December 1979. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Albert House, 39 Albert Street, Newton Stewart
- WRENN ID
- rooted-lead-sable
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1979
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Albert House, 39 Albert Street, Newton Stewart, DG8 6EG
- OS grid reference
- NX 411 653
- Coordinates
- 54.95722, -4.4824
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Albert House is an earlier 19th-century cottage located at 39 Albert Street in Newton Stewart. It features a symmetrical three-bay design and is built on steeply sloping ground, presenting as a single storey and attic to the street, while appearing as two storeys at the rear. The cottage is constructed from pinned squared granite with polished raised granite margins.
Access is provided by steps leading to a central doorway that has an architrave and cavetto reveals, featuring a modern door with a fanlight above. The windows are single light, sash and case style, with a 2-pane plate-glass glazing pattern. The roof includes a pair of canted piend-roofed dormers and a rooflight, with additional windows located on the left gable return. The building has end skews and skewputts, with coped end stacks. The front roof is covered with graded slate, while the rear is finished with concrete tiles. The rear elevation is made of painted rubble and includes a single-storey wing.
Local climate
Albert House, 39 Albert Street, Newton Stewart sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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
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