70 High Street, Kirkcudbright is a Grade A listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 August 1967. 2 related planning applications.

70 High Street, Kirkcudbright

WRENN ID
seventh-bronze-pigeon
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
18 August 1967
Address
70 High Street, Kirkcudbright, DG6 4JL
OS grid reference
NX 680 508
Coordinates
54.83528, -4.05526
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

66 High Street in Kirkcudbright is a 17th-century terraced house that has undergone modern renovations. The building is two stories high with dormerless attics and features five bays. It is constructed from rubble with some pink sandstone dressings. A central round-arched pend leads to a rear close. To the left, No 70 has a door and two windows, which have been altered between a door and a window. To the right, there are two windows. The central first-floor window has been reset higher in the wall, but the original cill remains in place, flanked by two inserted windows. No 68 is accessed from the pend and has five first-floor windows, with the outer two being lower. Before restoration, only the central and outer right windows were present. The building has straight skews and a slate roof. No 66 features a single-storey and attic rear wing in the close, along with an additional two-storey, two-bay house to the south. No 70 also has two stories and two bays in the close, while No 68 includes an additional two-storey, four-bay house to the south with deeply recessed sash windows, two of which are located on the first floor. The close itself is rubble-built and painted, topped with slate roofs.

Local climate

70 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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