76 Main Street, Kirkcolm is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 February 1994. Cottage.
76 Main Street, Kirkcolm
- WRENN ID
- carved-stair-dust
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 February 1994
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- NX 028 688
- Coordinates
- 54.97513, -5.08225
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
76 Main Street in Kirkcolm is a late 19th century single-storey and attic cottage that is part of a terrace. The building features a painted render finish and has painted architraved margins.
The east elevation facing Main Street has a central door with windows in the outer bays and gabled dormer windows above these outer bays. There are boundary walls on both the left and right sides.
The south elevation is adjoined to No 74 Main Street, while the north elevation is adjoined to No 78 Main Street. The cottage has margined glazing on the casements and fixed-light dormer windows, with mutual coped skew and gablehead stacks. The roof is covered with purple slates.
The property includes a low rendered boundary wall that encloses a small garden to the east and is continuous with the boundary wall of No 78 Main Street to the north. This wall is topped with iron spearhead railings and features an iron spearhead gate.
Local climate
76 Main Street, Kirkcolm sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,330 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 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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