Harbour Cottage, Castle Bank, Kirkcudbright is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 May 1981. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.

Harbour Cottage, Castle Bank, Kirkcudbright

WRENN ID
twelfth-tallow-amber
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
28 May 1981
Type
Cottage
Address
Harbour Cottage, Castle Bank, Kirkcudbright, DG6 4LB
OS grid reference
NX 682 511
Coordinates
54.83738, -4.05304
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Harbour Cottage, located on Castle Bank in Kirkcudbright, is an earlier 19th-century building that was originally three cottages but has been extensively modernised and altered into a single house. The structure is two storeys high with three irregularly spaced bays. It features painted rubble walls and modern lintels and sills on all windows. The central door is flanked by modern glazing. The cottage has deeply overhanging eaves and tall brick chimney stacks, topped with a slate roof. There is also a rear extension.

Local climate

Harbour Cottage, Castle Bank, 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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