Skeldon, 37 Main Street, Kirkcowan is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 December 1979. House. 1 related planning application.
Skeldon, 37 Main Street, Kirkcowan
- WRENN ID
- sunken-quoin-sorrel
- 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
- OS grid reference
- NX 328 607
- Coordinates
- 54.91351, -4.60839
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Skeldon is an earlier 19th century, two-storey, three-bay house that previously had a shop on the ground floor. It features bull-faced whinstone walling with painted raised rusticated angles and window margins, as well as a painted raised basecourse and a first-floor band course. The building has a cornice and a centrally placed pilastered and corniced doorpiece, which includes a panelled door with a fanlight above. To the left, there is a former shopfront that is glazed as bipartite, with a door to the right that is double-leaf and also has a fanlight; a bipartite window to the left features a timber mullion. The remaining windows are all single light, sash and case, with 12-pane glazing. There is a painted eaves band and eaves cornice, along with a flat-roofed extension to the porch at the rear. The house has tall rusticated corniced end stacks topped with octagonal cans and modern concrete tile roofs. Additionally, there are two skylights on the front. At the rear, there is a stone-built, slate-roofed outbuilding that was formerly a stable.
Local climate
Skeldon, 37 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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