13 Bank Street, Wigtown is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1972. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
13 Bank Street, Wigtown
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 July 1972
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 13 Bank Street, Wigtown, DG8 9HR
- OS grid reference
- NX 434 554
- Coordinates
- 54.86887, -4.4407
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
13 Bank Street in Wigtown is a pair of early 19th century single-storey terraced cottages. The cottages are constructed of painted rubble with raised painted margins and feature polished rusticated quoins at the corners. Number 13 has three bays and includes steps leading to a central panelled door with a fanlight above. On either side of the door are sash and case windows with plate-glass glazing. Number 15 has two bays, with steps leading to a modern door on the right and a plate-glass sash and case window on the left. Both cottages have slate roofs, with sandstone skew stones on the left side, including an oversized roll skewputt. Number 15 has modern rooflights at the front and a box dormer at the rear, while Number 13 has rooflights at the rear. The buildings also feature cast-iron rainwater goods and corniced axial stacks.
Local climate
13 Bank Street, Wigtown 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 sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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