Blue Peter Hotel, 23 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. Hotel.

Blue Peter Hotel, 23 Main Street, Kirkcolm

WRENN ID
bitter-marble-dew
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
Hotel
OS grid reference
NX 029 687
Coordinates
54.97441, -5.08084
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Blue Peter Hotel, located at 23 Main Street in Kirkcolm, is an earlier 19th-century building that was remodeled in 1884. This two-storey and attic hotel features three bays and is part of a terrace. It has a painted render finish with a painted base course and painted architraved margins, along with bracketed cills to the windows.

On the west elevation facing Main Street, there is a pilastered doorpiece at the center, topped with a dentilled cornice and an angled tablet that displays the ciphered date "1884." The entrance features a panelled door and a deep plate fanlight. To the left, there is a door that has been enlarged from a window, consisting of two leaves and a deep fanlight. The ground floor has a window in the right bay, and each bay has windows on the first floor. Above the outer bays, there are two canted and piended dormer windows, each adorned with wrought-iron finials.

The south elevation is blank above the adjoining lower building, No 21 Main Street, while the north elevation is also blank above the adjoining lower building, No 25 Main Street. The windows are fitted with 4-pane glazing in sash and case style. The building features red sandstone coped skews, painted brick gablehead stacks on the north and south sides, small purple slates, and octagonal cans.

Local climate

Blue Peter Hotel, 23 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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