6-8 Castle Street, Kirkcudbright is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1971. Terraced house.

6-8 Castle Street, Kirkcudbright

WRENN ID
ruined-rafter-fen
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
4 November 1971
Type
Terraced house
OS grid reference
NX 682 510
Coordinates
54.83662, -4.05287
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

6-8 Castle Street in Kirkcudbright is an early 19th-century terraced house that has been significantly altered on the left side. The building has two stories and an attic, with two bays. It features painted render that is partly lined, along with decorative margins. There is a shared pend with No 2. Number 6 has a decorative panelled door and a decorative fanlight, while No 8 contains a modern shop front. On the first floor to the left, there is a 12-pane sash window. The house also has a two-storey canted window that rises into the attic and a canted dormer on the right. The roof is slate, and there are brick stacks at the ends.

Local climate

6-8 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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