54 Main Street, Kirkcolm is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 December 1979. House. 3 related planning applications.
54 Main Street, Kirkcolm
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-rafter-hawthorn
- Grade
- B
- 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
- 54 Main Street, Kirkcolm, DG9 0NN
- OS grid reference
- NX 029 687
- Coordinates
- 54.97429, -5.08103
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
54 Main Street in Kirkcolm is a later 19th-century, two-storey and attic house located at the end of a terrace on an acute corner site. The east elevation features painted render with a channelled ground floor, while the south elevation is harled and the north elevation is made of painted brick. The east elevation has painted dressings, including a base course, quoin strips at the first floor, raised margins at the first floor, and an eaves course that incorporates lintels.
On the east elevation, there is a door to the right and a window to the left in the centre bay, featuring a panelled door and fanlight. A window is located at the centre of the first floor, and there are bipartite windows in the outer bays on both floors. A cornice separates the floors, ending with mannered segmentally-pedimented consoles. Above the outer bays, there are gabled dormer windows with decorative iron finials.
The south elevation has a window on both the left and right at the first floor. The north elevation is adjoined to a lower building, No 56 Main Street. The east elevation has plate glass glazing in sash and case windows, while the south elevation and dormer windows feature modern glazing. The building has red sandstone coped skews, gablehead stacks, small grey slates, and octagonal cans.
Local climate
54 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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- Related listed building consents — 3 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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