53 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. House. 1 related planning application.

53 Castle Street, Kirkcudbright

WRENN ID
vacant-rafter-woodpecker
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
House
Address
53 Castle Street, Kirkcudbright, DG6 4JD
OS grid reference
NX 682 508
Coordinates
54.83521, -4.05347
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

53 Castle Street is an early 19th-century terraced house that stands two storeys high and features two bays. The exterior is made of painted rubble with margins. The entrance is located on the right and includes a simple fanlight above the door, with a pend at the extreme right. To the left of the door, there is one window with four panes, while the first floor has two windows, each with 12-pane sashes. The house is topped with a slate roof.

Local climate

53 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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