27 North Main Street, Wigtown is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 December 1979. House. 1 related planning application.
27 North Main Street, Wigtown
- WRENN ID
- night-pillar-dew
- 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
- House
- OS grid reference
- NX 432 552
- Coordinates
- 54.86768, -4.44433
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
27 North Main Street in Wigtown is a mid-19th century, two-storey, three-bay house that features a betting office on the ground floor, contributing to the continuous street line of the terrace. The exterior is harled with painted ashlar margins. The central entrance door has a letterbox fanlight and is flanked by large shop windows, with an additional door leading to a flat on the outer right. On the first floor, there are three windows. The right return elevation shows evidence of a former adjoining property. The left gable extends over the neighboring building at the eaves. The first-floor windows have modern glazing, and the roof is covered with large grey slates and small modern skylights. The building has ashlar coped skews and features two end stacks, one rendered and one brick. There is also an extension at the rear.
Local climate
27 North Main Street, Wigtown sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,370 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 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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