Kirkbrae, 53 Main Street, Auchencairn is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1971. House.

Kirkbrae, 53 Main Street, Auchencairn

WRENN ID
cold-panel-coral
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
4 November 1971
Type
House
OS grid reference
NX 797 513
Coordinates
54.84218, -3.87466
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Kirkbrae is an early 19th century, two-storey, three-bay house located at 53 Main Street in Auchencairn. The building features painted rubble walls with squared quoins and raised flat rendered margins. It has single light sash windows with plate glass glazing, a modern glazed door, and a fanlight. The roof is covered with slate, has flat skews, and corniced wallhead stacks. At the rear, there is a single-storey gabled stone wing with a tall brick stack and a full-height projecting central bay topped with a hipped roof. To the left flank, there is a modern brick and glass extension. A drystone wall runs along the road.

Local climate

Kirkbrae, 53 Main Street, Auchencairn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% 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 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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