56 Main Street, Isle Of Whithorn is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1972. House. 3 related planning applications.

56 Main Street, Isle Of Whithorn

WRENN ID
eastward-column-acorn
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
56 Main Street, Isle Of Whithorn, DG8 8LG
OS grid reference
NX 478 364
Coordinates
54.70011, -4.36285
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

56 Main Street is a late 18th century, two-storey, three-bay house. It features smooth rendered walls with painted raised margins. The central door is flanked by windows that are single light, sash and case style with four-pane glazing. The house has raised end skews and coped end stacks, topped with good graded slate roofs.

Local climate

56 Main Street, Isle Of 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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