Registrar's Office, 75 George Street, Whithorn is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1972. House. 2 related planning applications.

Registrar's Office, 75 George Street, Whithorn

WRENN ID
leaning-window-oak
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
House
Address
Registrar's Office, 75 George Street, Whithorn, DG8 8NU
OS grid reference
NX 445 401
Coordinates
54.7325, -4.41622
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Registrar's Office, located at 75 George Street in Whithorn, is a later 18th century, 2-storey house with an asymmetrical 4-bay design. The exterior features harled walling with raised painted angles and window margins. There are steps leading to an off-centre left doorpiece that has a moulded cornice.

The door is modern and includes a fanlight above it. To the left of the door, there is one window, and to the right, there are two windows. On the first floor, there are four windows. All windows are single light, with those on the ground floor being slightly wider, possibly indicating later enlargements. They are all sash and case windows with plate glass glazing. The house has a painted raised basecourse, sandstone skews, a hefty coped stack, thackstane, modern slate roofs, and two small skylights. There is also a 2-storey projection at the rear.

In front of the house, there is a low harled and coped retaining wall topped with modern iron railings. The granite steps leading to the house are complemented by a good cast-iron balustrade.

Local climate

Registrar's Office, 75 George 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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