7 Birtwhistle Street, Gatehouse Of Fleet is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 June 1991. Row of cottages.

7 Birtwhistle Street, Gatehouse Of Fleet

WRENN ID
brooding-rubble-alder
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
11 June 1991
Type
Row of cottages
OS grid reference
NX 600 566
Coordinates
54.88496, -4.18328
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

7 Birtwhistle Street in Gatehouse of Fleet is a row of weaver's cottages built in the late 18th to early 19th century. The two-storey buildings are similar in design, though some have minor modern changes to their windows. Each house has two bays and is constructed from brick, with harled surfaces and some featuring modern roughcast. The windows are primarily single light, except for a bipartite window at No 7, and are mainly sash and case with 12-pane glazing. The cottages have saw tooth brick eaves, slate roofs, and axial brick coped stacks.

Local climate

7 Birtwhistle Street, Gatehouse Of Fleet 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 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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