40 Main Street, Kirkcolm is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 December 1979. House.
40 Main Street, Kirkcolm
- WRENN ID
- floating-foundation-dawn
- Grade
- C
- 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 029 686
- Coordinates
- 54.97373, -5.08017
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
40 Main Street in Kirkcolm is a mid-19th century, two-storey, two-bay house that is part of a terrace. The building is constructed of painted rubble with painted raised margins.
On the east elevation facing Main Street, there is a door located in the left bay, and a window in both floors of the right bay, with the ground floor window being enlarged.
The south elevation is attached to No 38 Main Street, while the north elevation is connected to the lower building at No 42 Main Street.
The first-floor window features plate glass glazing in a sash and case style, while the ground floor has metal-framed glazing. The building has no skews and features gablehead stacks on both the north and south sides. The roof is covered with Rubberoid tiles and has squat octagonal cans.
Local climate
40 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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