Pend House And Whithorn Priory Gateway, 57 George Street, Whithorn is a Grade A listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1972. 1 related planning application.
Pend House And Whithorn Priory Gateway, 57 George Street, Whithorn
- WRENN ID
- other-window-barley
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 July 1972
- OS grid reference
- NX 445 402
- Coordinates
- 54.733, -4.41593
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
59 George Street in Whithorn is a pair of irregular two-storey houses, primarily from the 18th century. The exterior features rendered painted walls with smooth painted margins. House number 55 has a door on the left side, along with an enlarged 19th-century window that has Gothick glazing. On the first floor, there are three single-light windows, with two located to the right above a pend. All windows are sash and case with 12-pane glazing.
House number 57 has a door on the right side, a single window to the left on the ground floor, and three windows on the first floor, one of which is a modern sash and case. All windows here are also sash and case with 12-pane glazing.
Both houses feature a moulded eaves cornice, substantial coped ends, and axial stacks topped with thackstane, all under slate roofs.
Local climate
Pend House And Whithorn Priory Gateway, 57 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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