The Rectory, 54, 56 High Street, Kirkcudbright is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1971. Terraced house.
The Rectory, 54, 56 High Street, Kirkcudbright
- WRENN ID
- tenth-frieze-cream
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1971
- Type
- Terraced house
- OS grid reference
- NX 680 509
- Coordinates
- 54.83566, -4.05578
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Rectory, located at 54 and 56 High Street in Kirkcudbright, is a terraced house dating from the earlier 19th century. It stands two stories tall with a dormerless attic above a basement and features three bays. The building is constructed from red sandstone ashlar. A central door is accessed by steps, framed by a broad pilastered doorpiece that includes a recessed door with panelled pilasters and a cornice, along with a fanlight above. There are band courses at both the ground and first floor levels. The ground floor has 12-pane sash windows set in architraves, corniced, and with aprons. The structure is topped with a cornice and blocking course, and it has end stacks with a slate roof. A modern forestair on the left provides access to the upper floors, and there is a two-storey rear wing. The property is also adorned with spearheaded cast-iron railings.
Local climate
The Rectory, 54, 56 High Street, Kirkcudbright 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 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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