Fleming House, 21 Main Street, Kirkcowan is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1972. 1 related planning application.

Fleming House, 21 Main Street, Kirkcowan

WRENN ID
sleeping-belfry-crimson
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
20 July 1972
Address
Fleming House, 21 Main Street, Kirkcowan, DG8 0HQ
OS grid reference
NX 328 608
Coordinates
54.91418, -4.60912
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Fleming House, located at 21 Main Street, Kirkcowan, is a pair of early 19th-century houses. The building comprises three bays on the right and a wider, single bay to the left. The construction is of painted rubble with painted raised margins, and the central three-bay section is advanced, featuring raised angle margins. A porch is formed over the advanced bay by monolithic granite slabs supporting a crude pediment. To the left of the porch, a door is positioned to the right of a window. All ground-floor openings are round-arched, while the first-floor openings are rectangular, with the window above the door set within round-arched jambs and topped with a gablet. The building has hefty end and axial coped stacks and a good graded slate roof. Windows are fitted with uPVC glazing, though this is considered unauthorised for No. 19, and a stained-glass window is present in No. 21. Modern doors have been installed. The rear elevation includes a timber porch to the ground floor on the left and a single-storey, flat-roofed modern extension to the right. A two-pane casement window is located to the left, and a sash and case window is to the right.

Local climate

Fleming House, 21 Main Street, Kirkcowan sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,340 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 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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