98 High Street, Kirkcudbright is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1971.

98 High Street, Kirkcudbright

WRENN ID
winter-moat-laurel
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
4 November 1971
OS grid reference
NX 681 508
Coordinates
54.83502, -4.05444
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This early 19th century terraced house at 96 High Street, Kirkcudbright, is two storeys high and has three bays. It features painted ashlar with margins on the ground floor and architraves on the first floor. There is a wide pend on the left side, with the entrance accessed through this pend. To the right of the entrance, there are three windows; the center space was once a door and has a curved cill, while the outer windows have projecting curved cills and lintels. A cill course runs along the first floor. The house has straight skews and a slate roof. At the rear, there is a two-storey wing built of rubble that fronts the close, identified as No 98.

Local climate

98 High 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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