53-55 St Mary Street, Kirkcudbright is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 May 1981. House. 2 related planning applications.

53-55 St Mary Street, Kirkcudbright

WRENN ID
tilted-doorway-soot
Grade
C
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 685 510
Coordinates
54.83736, -4.04811
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

53-55 St Mary Street in Kirkcudbright is a pair of terraced houses dating from the early 19th century, with some alterations. Each house is two stories high with an attic and features two bays. There is a shared pend between the houses. Numbers 53 and 55 are constructed of painted rubble, while number 57 has painted margins. Number 53 includes a modern shop front. Each house has two first-floor windows and modern wallhead dormers, all under a slate roof.

Local climate

53-55 St Mary 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 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% 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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