Johnston School, St Mary Street, Kirkcudbright is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 May 1981. School. 4 related planning applications.
Johnston School, St Mary Street, Kirkcudbright
- WRENN ID
- burning-pillar-wagtail
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 May 1981
- Type
- School
- OS grid reference
- NX 686 511
- Coordinates
- 54.83824, -4.04679
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Johnston School, located on St Mary Street in Kirkcudbright, was built in 1847. It is a single-storey building featuring a prominent central Italianate tower. The structure is constructed from rubble, with granite angle piers and quoins at the tower, and polished sandstone dressings. The main block is symmetrical, highlighted by the central tower that has a semi-circular arched door and louvered openings above. The building has deeply projecting eaves, a cornice, and a shallow piended roof topped with a weathervane.
There are paired semi-circular arched windows in a recessed bay, along with similarly arched tripartite windows in the advanced bays. The outer wide recessed bays contain doors. To the left, there is an additional range with two bipartite windows. The roofs are covered with piended slate. There are modern additions to the left and rear of the building.
Local climate
Johnston School, St Mary 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 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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