78 Main Street, Kirkcolm is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 February 1994. Cottage.
78 Main Street, Kirkcolm
- WRENN ID
- burning-pier-solstice
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 February 1994
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- NX 028 688
- Coordinates
- 54.9752, -5.08232
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This late 19th century cottage at 78 Main Street, Kirkcolm, is a single storey and attic structure with three bays, forming part of a terrace. The exterior is harled with painted dressings that include tabbed margins, channelled quoin strips, and a base course.
On the east elevation facing Main Street, there is a panelled door with a letter-box fanlight at the center, flanked by bipartite windows in the outer bays. Above these outer bays are piended dormer windows.
The south elevation is adjoined to No 76 Main Street, while the north elevation is adjoined to No 80 Main Street. The cottage features sash and case windows, with 6-pane upper sashes and plate glass lower sashes, and small-pane glazing in the dormer windows. The gable ends have coped skew and there are gablehead stacks on both the north and south sides. The roof is covered with purple slates and has octagonal cans.
The property is enclosed by a low rendered boundary wall that surrounds a small garden to the east and is continuous with the boundary wall of No 76 Main Street to the south. The railings have been removed.
Local climate
78 Main Street, Kirkcolm sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,330 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 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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