Library, Church Street, Port William is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 December 1979. Library. 1 related planning application.
Library, Church Street, Port William
- WRENN ID
- nether-quartz-khaki
- 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
- Library
- OS grid reference
- NX 338 439
- Coordinates
- 54.76304, -4.58449
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The building is a library located on Church Street in Port William, dating from the late 18th to early 19th century. It is a single-storey, three-bay cottage constructed of painted rubble with projecting cills.
On the south elevation, there is a boarded door at the center, flanked by windows in the outer bays. The west elevation features a flat-roofed painted rubble outbuilding that is attached, with a boarded door to the right leading south.
The east elevation has a painted rubble lean-to attached to the left, with a shed adjoining at the center and right. The north elevation includes a single-storey, piend-roofed, painted brick extension that runs along the length of the elevation. This side has timber sash and case windows with plate glass glazing, painted coped skews, and painted rubble gablehead stacks. The roof is covered with variegated purple slates, and there is a decorative square can on the west stack. A small rooflight is present on the south pitch.
Local climate
Library, Church Street, Port William sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,340 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 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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