The Cross House, 2 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. House. 1 related planning application.

The Cross House, 2 George Street, Whithorn

WRENN ID
crumbling-kitchen-azure
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
House
Address
The Cross House, 2 George Street, Whithorn, DG8 8NY
OS grid reference
NX 446 403
Coordinates
54.73434, -4.41444
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Cross House, located at 2 George Street in Whithorn, is an early 19th-century, two-storey, three-bay house situated on a corner site at the junction with St John Street. It is positioned at right angles to the other terraces on George Street and features a shop on the ground floor.

The building is constructed of rubble with painted ashlar dressings. The south elevation includes a large shop window on the left, a window, and a modern door on the right, along with three first-floor windows. The west elevation has a gabled two-bay design, featuring a tall window at the ground level in the center and two first-floor windows.

The southwest angle is chamfered, with a shop door and a swept square above. The roof is covered with graded grey slates, and there are dressed gablehead stacks. The coped skews are complemented by skewputts.

Local climate

The Cross House, 2 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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