8-10 Castle Street, Stranraer is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 1998. House. 1 related planning application.
8-10 Castle Street, Stranraer
- WRENN ID
- third-slate-swift
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1998
- Type
- House
- Address
- 8-10 Castle Street, Stranraer, DG9 7RT
- OS grid reference
- NX 061 608
- Coordinates
- 54.90433, -5.02588
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
8-10 Castle Street in Stranraer is an earlier 19th-century, two-storey, four-bay house that has been converted into an office. It features a circular stair tower at the rear. The entrance elevation is finished in harl, while the rear is constructed from sandstone rubble, with sandstone ashlar dressings. The building includes a base course, a lintel course, and moulded surrounds around the windows on the entrance elevation.
The west (entrance) elevation has a recessed timber door with a fanlight in the penultimate bay to the left, with a single window directly above it on the first floor. The remaining bays have regular fenestration.
On the east (rear) elevation, there is a stair tower to the left, a single window in the center, and an entrance to the right. There are also single windows at both the ground and first floors on the outer right.
The north (side) elevation features a lean-to, with a large shop window at the ground level and a single window on the first floor.
The building has 12-pane timber sash and case windows that are double-glazed. The roof is covered in grey slate and has a mutual stack to the left shared with 12 and 14 Castle Street. The interior was not seen in 1997.
Local climate
8-10 Castle Street, Stranraer sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% 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 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% 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 0.3°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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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