6 Lewis Street, Stranraer is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1972. House. 1 related planning application.
6 Lewis Street, Stranraer
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-kitchen-bistre
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 July 1972
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NX 059 607
- Coordinates
- 54.90329, -5.02769
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
6 Lewis Street in Stranraer is an earlier 19th-century single-storey house with an attic, designed in a symmetrical L plan. The entrance elevation features painted render, while the sides are finished in painted rubble. The building has a deep base course, banded quoins, and painted surrounds.
The northeast entrance elevation includes a double fore-stair leading to the entrance, which has a 6-panel timber door with decorative glass in the uppermost panels and a fanlight above. There are single windows flanking the entrance at ground level. Above, in the attic, are dormers with segmental pediments, cornices, and pilasters, aligned with the entrance below.
The ground floor has 12-pane timber sash and case windows, while the dormers feature 3-pane casement windows with leaded upper banding and a rooflight. The roof is covered with graded grey slate and has coped gablehead stacks with circular cans.
The interior was not seen in 1997. The property is enclosed by a coped, rendered boundary wall.
Local climate
6 Lewis 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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