County Buildings, 121, 123 High Street, Kirkcudbright is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1971. Council office.
County Buildings, 121, 123 High Street, Kirkcudbright
- WRENN ID
- haunted-panel-ridge
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1971
- Type
- Council office
- OS grid reference
- NX 682 508
- Coordinates
- 54.83494, -4.05244
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The County Buildings, located at 121 and 123 High Street in Kirkcudbright, date from the late 18th century and consist of a terraced house that is two storeys high over a basement, featuring five bays with the outer pairs bowed. The exterior is finished in painted stucco, with margins and rusticated quoins. There are four basement windows with six panes in the bows, and a band course above. The central door is accessed by a flight of steps leading down from the basement area, featuring a Roman Doric engaged column doorpiece with a pedimented panelled door. Above, the first-floor windows have lugged architraves, and all windows are fitted with 12-pane sashes. The building is topped with a cornice and blocking course, and has straight skews with block skewputts, as well as end stacks with angle margins. The roof is slate.
To the right is an earlier 19th-century two-storey, two-bay house that is now part of the County Offices. This section also features painted stucco with margins and channelled, rusticated quoins. The left bay contains a door with a moulded architrave, entablature, and blocking course. Like the main building, it has 12-pane sashes throughout, and the cornice and castellated parapet continue along the remaining elevations. Arrowhead cast-iron railings enclose the forecourt.
At the rear, there is an extensive modern office range built in 1952.
Local climate
County Buildings, 121, 123 High 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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