70-72 George Street, Whithorn is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1972. Terraced house.

70-72 George Street, Whithorn

WRENN ID
hollow-timber-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
Terraced house
OS grid reference
NX 445 401
Coordinates
54.73224, -4.41563
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

70-72 George Street in Whithorn is a late 18th-century, two-storey, three-bay terraced house that features shop windows on the ground floor. The building is constructed of painted rubble with raised painted angles and window margins.

The central entrance has a modern door with a narrow fanlight, and it is flanked by two enlarged plate glass windows. To the far right, there is a pend door. On the first floor, there are three sash and case windows, each with 12-pane glazing.

The house has a band course and a moulded cornice at the eaves, along with graded slate roofs, sandstone skew stones, and slab skewputts. The end stacks are coped, and the guttering is supported by iron gallows brackets.

Local climate

70-72 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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