7 St John Street, Creetown is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1971. 2 related planning applications.
7 St John Street, Creetown
- WRENN ID
- dusk-bonework-elm
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1971
- Address
- 7 St John Street, Creetown, DG8 7JA
- OS grid reference
- NX 475 589
- Coordinates
- 54.90191, -4.37888
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is an early 19th century pair of houses located at 7 and 9 St John Street, Creetown. The exterior is built of rubble stone with painted margins, squared granite quoin details, and a granite door surround at number 7. Number 7 is a three-bay structure with a central doorway, while number 9 is a two-bay house with a more modern door on the left. Both houses feature single-light sash windows with plate glass. Number 7 has canted dormers and a small rooflight with end skews to the left.
The roofs are slate, with number 9 retaining good graded slates. Chimneys are tall with coped ends and octagonal cans, topped with sandstone ridges. A small, flat-roofed dormer and a flat-roofed extension are present at the rear of number 9.
The rear elevation of number 7 is rendered and painted, while the rear elevation of number 9 is painted rubble.
The houses are part of a group value setting with numbers 3-5, 11-19 St John Street, which includes listed buildings 17, 18, 20-24.
Local climate
7 St John Street, Creetown 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- 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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