39 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. House. 2 related planning applications.

39 Main Street, Kirkcowan

WRENN ID
noble-obsidian-foxglove
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
17 December 1979
Type
House
Address
39 Main Street, Kirkcowan, DG8 0HQ
OS grid reference
NX 329 607
Coordinates
54.91341, -4.60829
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

39 Main Street in Kirkcowan is a house dating from the early 19th century, which was raised to two storeys around 1910. The building is two storeys high and has three bays. The front is harled with a base course, quoin strips, and raised margins, while the sides and rear are made of painted rubble. There is a deep-set door at the center, with a window above it and additional windows in the flanking bays on each floor. The right end gable is blank. The windows are plate glass sash and case style. The house features end stacks with thackstanes, grey slates on the front roof, and tiles on the rear. At the back, there is a lean-to with a glazed porch and casement windows.

Local climate

39 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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