49 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.
49 Castle Street, Kirkcudbright
- WRENN ID
- steep-pewter-linden
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 May 1981
- OS grid reference
- NX 682 508
- Coordinates
- 54.8353, -4.05338
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
51 Castle Street is an early 19th-century terraced house that includes a later shop. The building has two storeys and an attic, featuring three bays. It is constructed of rubble with painted margins. On the right side, there is a pilastered shop front, while to the left, there is a door and one window. The first floor has three windows, each with 12-pane sash designs. The house also has two modern dormers, brick chimney stacks, and a slate roof.
Local climate
49 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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