Taigh Breac, 19 Main Street, Mochrum is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 December 1979. Cottage.

Taigh Breac, 19 Main Street, Mochrum

WRENN ID
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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
OS grid reference
NX 347 464
Coordinates
54.78569, -4.57197
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Taigh Breac is an earlier 19th-century cottage located at 19 Main Street in Mochrum. It is a single storey and attic structure with three bays, positioned at the end of a terraced row. The east elevation features Aberdeen bond, cherry-caulked masonry, and finely hewn course blocks of varied shades with whinstone pinning. The building has painted granite lintels, cills, and rybats, along with granite quoins on the south side.

The south elevation has a rendered battered base course and painted rubble.

On the east elevation, which faces Main Street, there is a centrally located doorway with a deep-set modern double-leaf door, accessed by several steps. Windows are present in the outer bays, and there are canted and piended dormer windows with small iron finials above these bays.

The south elevation is gabled and blank. The north elevation is adjoined to No 21 Main Street, which is listed separately. It features modern windows in the outer bays, granite coped skews shared with the north side, and broad rendered stacks, with a gablehead to the south that is mutual to the north. The roof is covered with graded grey slates.

Local climate

Taigh Breac, 19 Main Street, Mochrum sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,340 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 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% 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 0.2°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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