Rose Cottage, 14 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. House. 1 related planning application.
Rose Cottage, 14 Main Street, Kirkcolm
- WRENN ID
- leaning-span-hawk
- 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
- House
- OS grid reference
- NX 030 685
- Coordinates
- 54.9725, -5.079
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Rose Cottage is a two-storey, three-bay house built in the later 19th century, located at the end of a terrace on Main Street in Kirkcolm. The house features painted render, with the south elevation dry-dashed and painted raised tabbed margins. Quoin strips are present, and the east elevation has segmental-arched openings at the first floor and to the porch.
The main elevation facing East has a central crenellated painted stone porch with a semicircular raised parapet. There is a door to the east and a window to the south. To the left bay at ground floor, there is a hoodmoulded bipartite window, and there is a window in each bay at the first floor. The external finish of the neighbouring building to the right extends onto this elevation.
On the south elevation, there are windows to the left and right at the first floor. The north elevation is adjoined to the lower building, No 16 Main Street.
The windows are fitted with plate glass glazing in sash and case style. The house features red sandstone coped skews, dry-dashed gablehead stacks on the north and south, and is covered with small grey slates. The property has octagonal and square chimney cans, along with cast-iron rainwater goods and decorative gutter fixtures.
Local climate
Rose Cottage, 14 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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