Cowanlea, 8 Main Street, Portpatrick is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 December 1979. House.

Cowanlea, 8 Main Street, Portpatrick

WRENN ID
buried-stronghold-stoat
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
House
OS grid reference
NX 000 542
Coordinates
54.84259, -5.11553
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Cowanlea is an earlier 19th century, two-storey house with an attic, forming part of a terrace on Main Street in Portpatrick. The building has a rectangular plan and is finished with painted render, featuring a base course and painted margins around the openings.

On the northwest elevation, which serves as the entrance, there is a central entrance with a timber door that has a letterbox fanlight above it. Directly above the entrance, at the first floor, is a single window. The flanking bays have regular fenestration, except for a large shop window located on the ground floor to the left. The attic features canted dormers on both the outer left and right sides.

The windows are plate glass timber sash and case, with the shop window situated on the ground floor to the outer left. The roof is covered with grey slate and has broad coped stacks with circular cans. The building also includes cast iron rainwater goods. The interior was not seen in 1997.

Local climate

Cowanlea, 8 Main Street, Portpatrick sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,230 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% 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 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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