Shop, 13 Main Street, Kirkcowan is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 December 1979. 1 related planning application.

Shop, 13 Main Street, Kirkcowan

WRENN ID
outer-portal-sable
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
17 December 1979
Address
Shop, 13 Main Street, Kirkcowan, DG8 0HG
OS grid reference
NX 328 608
Coordinates
54.91458, -4.6095
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This is an earlier 19th century shop, located at 13 Main Street in Kirkcowan village. It is a two-storey, three-bay house constructed with rubble walling, featuring squared granite quoins and margins. The doorpiece is plastered, incorporating a recessed door with a fanlight above. The windows are single-light, sash and case style with plate glass glazing. The building has end skewes (triangular projections of the roof), tall coped end stacks (chimneys) made of sandstone, and a sandstone ridge. Two small, modern flat-roofed dormers have been added, along with a modern tiled roof.

Local climate

Shop, 13 Main Street, Kirkcowan sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,340 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 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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