8 Main Street, Kirkcowan is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 December 1979.

8 Main Street, Kirkcowan

WRENN ID
shadowed-gravel-dock
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
17 December 1979
Address
8 Main Street, Kirkcowan, DG8 0HG
OS grid reference
NX 328 608
Coordinates
54.91465, -4.60999
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Braeside is an early 19th-century single-storey pair of terraced cottages that are currently combined into one property. The cottages are arranged in a five-bay row, with a rendered exterior lined with painted moulded ashlar margins. There is a window at the center, flanked by doors in the adjacent bays. The cottage on the right has two bays, with a ridge stack indicating a division and a rooflight above. The right end gable is blank, while there is a window on the left gable. The windows are plate glass sash and case, and the doors are deep-set. The roof is covered with grey slates and features two canted dormers on the left cottage, along with a small rooflight on the right. The stacks are harled and have ashlar coped tops with end skews.

Local climate

8 Main Street, Kirkcowan sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,340 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 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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Nearby listed buildings

  1. 'Braeside', 10 Main Street, Kirkcowan Grade C 5 m
  2. Shop, 13 Main Street, Kirkcowan Grade B 32 m
  3. Blue House, 16 Main Street, Kirkcowan Grade C 38 m
  4. White House, 18 Main Street, Kirkcowan Grade C 52 m
  5. Fleming House, 19 Main Street, Kirkcowan Grade B 71 m
  6. Fleming House, 21 Main Street, Kirkcowan Grade B 76 m
  7. The Craighlaw Arms, 23 Main Street, Kirkcowan Grade B 91 m
  8. Church Of Scotland, Kirkcowan Parish Church Grade A 99 m
  9. 31 Main Street, Kirkcolm Grade B 131 m
  10. The Stepps, 33, 35 Main Street, Kirkcowan Grade B 146 m