26 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.
26 Main Street, Kirkcolm
- WRENN ID
- tilted-lime-lark
- 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 029 686
- Coordinates
- 54.9732, -5.07955
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
26 Main Street in Kirkcolm is a mid-19th century, two-storey, three-bay house that is part of a terrace. The ground floor is rendered and lined, while the first floor is harled, featuring painted raised margins.
On the east elevation facing Main Street, there is a door in the center, with windows arranged regularly on both the ground and first floors. The window in the right bay on the ground floor has been enlarged to a two-light design.
The south elevation is attached to a slightly taller building, No 24 Main Street, which is the Corsewall Arms Hotel. The north elevation is adjoined to No 28 Main Street.
The house has modern glazing and a mutual coped skew to the north. There is also a mutual painted rubble gablehead stack to the north. The roof is covered with purple slates and features octagonal cans.
Local climate
26 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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