Post Office, 17 Main Street, Glenluce is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1993. House. 1 related planning application.

Post Office, 17 Main Street, Glenluce

WRENN ID
lone-slate-thrush
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
3 August 1993
Type
House
Address
Post Office, 17 Main Street, Glenluce, DG8 0PN
OS grid reference
NX 197 573
Coordinates
54.8783, -4.81179
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Post Office located at 17 Main Street in Glenluce is an early 19th-century, two-storey, three-bay house that features shops on the ground floor and is part of a terrace. The building is rendered and has painted architraved margins with bracketed cills on the first floor, as well as a painted base course.

On the south elevation facing Main Street, there is a panelled door with a plate glass fanlight at the center. To the right of the door, there are two shop windows, and a corniced fascia runs over the center and right bays, with pilasters at each end flanking the central door on the left and the outer window on the right. The left bay contains a shop window with an architraved margin that extends to the ground. The first floor has regular fenestration.

The west elevation is adjoined to a lower bay and features a pend and a gabled-dormer-headed window. The east elevation is connected to the higher building at 19 Main Street, which houses the Royal Bank of Scotland.

The ground floor shop windows have fixed plate glass glazing, including a small "GR" postbox in the window to the left, while the first floor has modern glazing. The building has red sandstone coped skews and roll skewputts. The gablehead stacks are rendered, broad on the west side and tall, corniced, and shouldered on the east side to match the adjoining gablehead stack of 19 Main Street. The roof is covered with grey slates and has red sandstone ridging, along with two rooflights above the outer bays.

Local climate

Post Office, 17 Main Street, Glenluce sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,310 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% 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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