Post Office, 28 Main Street, Kirkcolm is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 December 1979. House. 3 related planning applications.

Post Office, 28 Main Street, Kirkcolm

WRENN ID
over-ember-acorn
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
OS grid reference
NX 029 686
Coordinates
54.9733, -5.07964
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Post Office at 28 Main Street in Kirkcolm is a mid-19th century, two-storey, three-bay house located at the end of a terrace. The building is harled, with the northern elevation featuring painted rubble. It has a painted shallow base course, painted channelled pilaster strips, and painted raised tabbed margins. There is a modillioned course below the guttering at the eaves.

On the eastern elevation facing Main Street, there is a pilastered doorpiece at the center, complete with a cornice and an angled tablet above, as well as a recessed margin and a letter-box fanlight. The ground and first floors have regular fenestration. To the right, there is a painted brick pillar that contains a post-box.

The southern elevation is adjoined to No 26 Main Street, which is listed separately. The northern elevation is blank above a rubble outbuilding that is attached at ground level. This outbuilding has a flat corrugated iron roof and features a door and a window, with the window formerly being a door.

The building has modern glazing, a mutual concrete coped skew to the south, and a scrolled skewputt. There is a mutual painted rubble gablehead stack to the south, while the gablehead stack to the north has been removed. The roof is covered with small purple slates, and it has cast-iron rainwater goods and octagonal cans.

Local climate

Post Office, 28 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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