4 High Street, Kirkcudbright is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1971. House. 2 related planning applications.

4 High Street, Kirkcudbright

WRENN ID
worn-lintel-barley
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
4 November 1971
Type
House
Address
4 High Street, Kirkcudbright, DG6 4JX
OS grid reference
NX 681 510
Coordinates
54.83716, -4.05402
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

4 High Street in Kirkcudbright is an early 19th-century terraced house. It has two storeys and an attic, which is lit by dormers at the rear, and features three bays. The building is constructed of squared coursed rubble with red sandstone quoins and painted margins around the windows and at the angles. The central entrance consists of a panelled two-leaf door, with a pend located at the extreme right. Throughout the house, there are 12-pane sash windows. At the rear, there are two piended, canted dormers. The roof has straight skews and end stacks, and it is covered with slate.

Local climate

4 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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