81 Main Street, Port William is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1972. Cottage.
81 Main Street, Port William
- WRENN ID
- half-railing-pine
- 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
- OS grid reference
- NX 338 438
- Coordinates
- 54.76168, -4.58401
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
81 Main Street in Port William is a single-storey, five-bay cottage that dates back to 1821. The exterior features projecting cills and is finished in dry-dash render.
On the west elevation facing Main Street, there is a doorway at the center, which has a modern door and fanlight. The windows are arranged regularly, and there are broad tympany gables over the outer bays.
The north elevation is gabled and blank, while the south elevation is adjoined to No 83 Main Street.
The cottage has timber sash and case windows, with four-pane upper sashes and plate glass lower sashes. The tympany gables have painted coped skews and painted rubble stacks, with no gablehead stacks. The roof is covered with purple slates.
Local climate
81 Main Street, Port William sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,340 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 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% 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 0.2°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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