Penninghame Burial-Ground And Mausoleum, Church Street, Newton Stewart is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 December 1979. Graveyard.

Penninghame Burial-Ground And Mausoleum, Church Street, Newton Stewart

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
17 December 1979
Type
Graveyard
OS grid reference
NX 409 653
Coordinates
54.957, -4.48517
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Penninghame Burial-Ground and Mausoleum is an oval-shaped graveyard that features a variety of gravestones from the 18th and 19th centuries, along with a mausoleum. The mausoleum itself is rectangular and constructed from ashlar stone. It has a plain boarded door and a substantial pyramidal ashlar roof. The mausoleum is set within a rubble enclosure that includes coping.

Local climate

Penninghame Burial-Ground And Mausoleum, Church Street, Newton Stewart sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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