Manse, 9 Harbour Road, Wigtown is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 January 1991. Manse.
Manse, 9 Harbour Road, Wigtown
- WRENN ID
- stony-barrel-briar
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 January 1991
- Type
- Manse
- OS grid reference
- NX 435 552
- Coordinates
- 54.86716, -4.43969
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Manse at 9 Harbour Road in Wigtown dates from around 1830 and is a two-storey, three-bay symmetrical building. It features rubble walling with rusticated polished red sandstone quoins, while the rear is finished in granite. The openings are architraved, and the central entrance has a consoled corniced doorpiece with a panelled door and fanlight above. All windows are single light, sash and case style with 12-pane glazing. The building has an eaves band and an eaves cornice, topped with slate roofs. The end skews and corniced end stacks are made of rusticated sandstone at the front and granite at the rear. There are two modern roof lights on the front. Inside, the panelled shutters and doors are original, and the staircase features simple cast-iron balusters. The property is enclosed by coped rubble boundary walls, which include cast-iron gatepiers and a gate.
Local climate
Manse, 9 Harbour Road, Wigtown sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,370 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 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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