15 Castle Street, Kirkcudbright is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 May 1981. Terraced house. 1 related planning application.

15 Castle Street, Kirkcudbright

WRENN ID
young-stair-vale
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
28 May 1981
Type
Terraced house
Address
15 Castle Street, Kirkcudbright, DG6 4JA
OS grid reference
NX 682 509
Coordinates
54.83642, -4.05258
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

15 Castle Street is a terraced house dating from the late 18th to early 19th century. It is two storeys tall with an attic and has two bays. The exterior features lined render with painted margins, a plinth, angle margins, and an eaves course. There is a door and pend on the right side, with one window to the left and two windows on the first floor, all fitted with 12-pane sash windows. The house has a poor wallhead and a piended dormer, along with two gabled wallhead stacks. The roof is covered with slate.

Local climate

15 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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