6 Commercial Street, Port William is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 November 1994. House.
6 Commercial Street, Port William
- WRENN ID
- frozen-stronghold-ridge
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 11 November 1994
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NX 338 435
- Coordinates
- 54.759, -4.58335
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
6 Commercial Street in Port William is a house dating from the late 19th century, originally featuring commercial or public premises. It is a two-storey building with the first floor set in the attic, constructed from squared and snecked whin masonry, with red sandstone ashlar dressings that include chamfered arrises and rybated margins, as well as quoins.
The north elevation facing Commercial Street has a gabled porch that is prominent at the center, with a door to the north and a small ashlar panel above it. There is a small window on the west return. To the left, there is a gabled bay that features a bipartite window on the ground floor and a window in the gablehead. To the right, an advanced pyramidal-roofed block has a window facing north.
The building has modern uPVC windows, red sandstone coped skews, and block skewputts. A red sandstone ashlar coped ridge stack is present, along with an ashlar ball finial on the left gable and a leaded ball finial on the pyramidal roof. The roof is covered with graded grey slates.
Local climate
6 Commercial 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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