White House, 18 Main Street, Kirkcowan is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 December 1979.

White House, 18 Main Street, Kirkcowan

WRENN ID
hallowed-brass-finch
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
17 December 1979
OS grid reference
NX 328 608
Coordinates
54.91427, -4.6095
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This is an early 19th-century house situated at 18 Main Street, Kirkcowan, and forming a terraced pair with the Blue House, which is listed separately. The White House is part of an intact traditional terrace located in the centre of the village.

The house is two storeys high with three bays. It is constructed of painted rubble with raised quoins and cills. The central doorway is flanked by a blind window above and windows to each floor in the flanking bays. The ground floor windows are sash and case with a four-pane glazing pattern, while the first-floor windows are sash windows with plate glass. The building has end chimney stacks.

Local climate

White House, 18 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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