1 Bakery Street, Auchencairn, Castle Douglas is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 April 1990. 2 related planning applications.
1 Bakery Street, Auchencairn, Castle Douglas
- WRENN ID
- narrow-banister-mist
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 23 April 1990
- Address
- 1 Bakery Street, Auchencairn, Castle Douglas, DG7 1RN
- OS grid reference
- NX 798 514
- Coordinates
- 54.84308, -3.87294
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
25 Main Street in Auchencairn, Castle Douglas, is a late 19th-century building that features two stories and an attic, with an asymmetrical gabled design. The exterior is made of polychrome brick, showcasing bands and lozenge detailing, along with painted 'hoodmoulds' above the windows. The building has a long frontage facing Main Street, with large plate glass windows at the ground level.
To the right, there is a prominent advanced gabled bay that includes three windows on the first floor and two in the attic. On the left side, the building has a six-bay front with a timber canted oriel window. There are also two bipartite gabled dormers that cut through the roof on the left.
The eastern gable features a tall projecting stack that rises from the ground to the left of the gable apex, with a group of three windows to the right. The building is topped with coped banded axial and end stacks and has steeply pitched slate roofs.
Local climate
1 Bakery Street, Auchencairn, Castle Douglas 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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- 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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