49 Main Street, Kirkcolm is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 February 1994. Toll house. 1 related planning application.
49 Main Street, Kirkcolm
- WRENN ID
- eternal-obsidian-dew
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 February 1994
- Type
- Toll house
- OS grid reference
- NX 028 688
- Coordinates
- 54.97525, -5.08199
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
49 Main Street in Kirkcolm is a single-storey, three-bay building that likely served as a former toll house, constructed after 1847. The exterior is harled with painted architraved margins.
On the west elevation facing Main Street, there is a central door featuring a two-leaf design and a letter-box fanlight, with windows located in the outer bays. The south elevation has a window positioned at the center. The east elevation includes a lean-to addition on the left side, which has a window facing south.
The building features 6-pane glazing in sash and case windows, a piended roof covered with purple slates, and a harled ridge stack located at the center of the roof.
Local climate
49 Main Street, Kirkcolm sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,330 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 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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 — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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