97 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. House. 2 related planning applications.
97 George Street, Whithorn
- WRENN ID
- sacred-basalt-flax
- 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
- House
- Address
- 97 George Street, Whithorn, DG8 8PZ
- OS grid reference
- NX 444 401
- Coordinates
- 54.73185, -4.41675
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This building, located at 97 George Street in Whithorn, dates from around 1800 and is a two-storey, four-bay house. It features a smooth rendered exterior with a raised basecourse, raised painted margins, and banded quoins.
The facade is regular, with a door positioned off-centre to the left. This door is a recessed modern design with a fanlight above it. There is one window to the left of the door, two to the right, and four on the first floor, with one of these being blind. All the windows are sash and case style with 12-pane glazing, while the two windows on the ground floor to the right have plate glass glazing.
Additional architectural details include a moulded eaves course, skews to the right, and tall corniced end and axial stacks topped with octagonal cans. The building is covered with good graded slate roofs.
Local climate
97 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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