96 George Street, Whithorn is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1972. Terraced houses.
96 George Street, Whithorn
- WRENN ID
- high-lead-bramble
- 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
- Terraced houses
- OS grid reference
- NX 445 400
- Coordinates
- 54.7317, -4.41624
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This building at 96 George Street in Whithorn dates from around 1800 and consists of a pair of two-storey, three-bay terraced houses. The structure is made of coursed rubble with painted raised margins and features long and short quoins. The doorways are located in the outer bays and have recessed doors with fanlights, although both doors are modern. The window at No 96 is a single light, sash and case with plate glass glazing, while the windows at No 98 are modern uPVC. There is a raised eaves band along the top.
The houses have steeply pitched roofs covered with graded slate, along with sandstone skews and ridges, and kneeler skewputts. Corniced axial stacks are present on the roofs.
Local climate
96 George Street, Whithorn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,360 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 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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