Harbour Cottage Art Gallery, Castle Bank, Kirkcudbright is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 May 1981. House.

Harbour Cottage Art Gallery, Castle Bank, Kirkcudbright

WRENN ID
dusted-latch-swallow
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
28 May 1981
Type
House
OS grid reference
NX 682 511
Coordinates
54.83744, -4.05284
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Harbour Cottage Art Gallery is a late 19th to early 20th century, two-storey, three-bay terraced house located on Castle Bank in Kirkcudbright. The building is constructed of painted rubble and features a central door flanked by one window on the left. The first floor has three windows, while the east elevation has two windows on each floor, all fitted with 12-pane sash windows. The cottage has an end stack and is topped with a slate roof.

Local climate

Harbour Cottage Art Gallery, Castle Bank, 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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