7 Castle Street, Kirkcudbright is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 May 1981. Terraced house.

7 Castle Street, Kirkcudbright

WRENN ID
brooding-ember-lichen
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
28 May 1981
Type
Terraced house
Address
7 Castle Street, Kirkcudbright, DG6 4JA
OS grid reference
NX 682 510
Coordinates
54.83658, -4.05243
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

7 Castle Street in Kirkcudbright is a terraced house built around 1820. It has two storeys above a basement and features three bays. The ground floor is finished in rusticated ashlar, while the upper floors are polished and painted. The entrance is highlighted by a Roman Doric doorpiece with a blocking course, and there is a pend at the far right. All windows have margins and 12-pane sashes, with the ground floor windows featuring hoodmoulds. The building has an eaves course and cornice, with modern brick stacks at the ends. The roof is covered in slate.

Local climate

7 Castle 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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