Museum And Custodians House, Bruce Street, Whithorn is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1972. Museum, house. 1 related planning application.

Museum And Custodians House, Bruce Street, Whithorn

WRENN ID
hushed-fireplace-finch
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
Museum, house
Address
Museum And Custodians House, Bruce Street, Whithorn, DG8 8PY
OS grid reference
NX 444 402
Coordinates
54.73338, -4.41674
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Museum and Custodians House on Bruce Street in Whithorn is a pair of late 18th century houses that now serve as the museum and custodians' residence for Whithorn Priory. Each house features three bays and is two stories high, with ground floor windows that are smaller than those on the first floor. There are blocked windows above the centrally placed doors. The walls are made of rubble with raised rendered margins, and the doors are recessed and panelled. Above the door to the museum, there is an inscribed reused panel dated 1730. All the windows are sash and case with 12-pane glazing. The buildings have tall end and axial coped stacks and are topped with good graded slate roofs. The boundary is marked by tall rubble stone walls.

Local climate

Museum And Custodians House, Bruce 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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