Blue House, 16 Main Street, Kirkcowan is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 December 1979.

Blue House, 16 Main Street, Kirkcowan

WRENN ID
still-mantel-wind
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
17 December 1979
Address
Blue House, 16 Main Street, Kirkcowan, DG8 0HG
OS grid reference
NX 328 608
Coordinates
54.91436, -4.60969
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This is an early to earlier 19th century, two-storey, three-bay house forming a terraced pair with a neighbouring property. The house is constructed of painted rubble with raised cills. The bays are arranged in a 2-1 pattern. A door is centrally located and features a letterbox fanlight above a panelled door; windows are positioned above the door and in the flanking bays. A rear extension has been added. Sash and case windows with a 4-pane glazing pattern are present at ground level, and 12-pane windows at the first floor. The roof is covered with a modern material that matches the adjacent property. Chimneys are located at each end of the building.

The Blue House is part of a pair with the White House, and they together form a prominent and dignified feature in the centre of Kirkcowan.

Local climate

Blue House, 16 Main Street, Kirkcowan sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,340 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 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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