Castle Guest House, 16 Castle Street, Kirkcudbright is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 May 1981. Bank.

Castle Guest House, 16 Castle Street, Kirkcudbright

WRENN ID
western-pewter-ridge
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
28 May 1981
Type
Bank
OS grid reference
NX 682 509
Coordinates
54.8364, -4.05303
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Castle Guest House, located at 16 Castle Street in Kirkcudbright, was built around 1860 and originally served as a bank with living quarters above. The building is two storeys high and features three bays. It is constructed from polished red sandstone, with a plinth, rusticated quoins, and a moulded cill course on the ground floor. The central entrance has a round-arched head, flanked by pilaster strips and topped with a consoled cornice. The outer bays contain bipartite windows, also with consoled cornices. On the first floor, there are three windows that have bracketted moulded cills and consoled cornices. The building is finished with an eaves course, a cornice, and a blocking course, along with corniced end stacks and a slate roof.

Local climate

Castle Guest House, 16 Castle Street, 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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