28-36 High Street, Sanquhar is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 August 1987. Commercial. 3 related planning applications.

28-36 High Street, Sanquhar

WRENN ID
final-sill-mist
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
21 August 1987
Type
Commercial
Address
28-36 High Street, Sanquhar, DG4 6BL
OS grid reference
NS 781 098
Coordinates
55.36763, -3.92396
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

28-36 High Street in Sanquhar is an early 19th-century building that stands two storeys high and features five bays. The exterior is made of painted, droved ashlar. On the right side, there are three doors and a former shop window, which has an ornamented architrave, while a café is located on the left. The first floor has a cill band and plate-glass sash windows. A fragment of a blocked cornice can be seen above the right angle of the building. It has end and axial stacks, and the roof is covered with modern tiles.

Local climate

28-36 High Street, Sanquhar 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 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 64 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 41 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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