5 St John Street, Stranraer is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 1998. Cottage.

5 St John Street, Stranraer

WRENN ID
hushed-pavement-laurel
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
30 March 1998
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
NX 062 608
Coordinates
54.90475, -5.02383
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

5 St John Street in Stranraer is an early 19th-century single-storey cottage with an asymmetrical three-bay design. The exterior features painted render and has margins around the recessed openings.

On the west elevation, there is a central doorpiece with a timber door that includes a narrow letterbox fanlight, flanked by single windows. The north elevation is a blank gable. The cottage has plate glass timber sash and case windows, along with a rooflight. The roof is covered with grey slate and features a broad gablehead stack with circular cans.

The interior was not seen during the inspection in 1997.

Local climate

5 St John Street, Stranraer sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% 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 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% 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 0.3°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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