6 Crockett Road, Auchencairn is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1971. 1 related planning application.
6 Crockett Road, Auchencairn
- WRENN ID
- dusted-casement-ochre
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1971
- OS grid reference
- NX 798 515
- Coordinates
- 54.84443, -3.87234
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
8 Crocket Road in Auchencairn is a mid-19th century building consisting of single-storey and attic cottages, each with two bays. The cottages are constructed from rubble with pinnings, featuring rock-faced granite quoins and margins. They have paired central doorways and four gabled dormers on the first floor. All windows are 12-pane sash windows. The flanks are painted rubble, and the roofs are slate with flat skews and corniced granite end stacks. There is a projecting modern single-storey porch at No 8, which has a hipped slate roof.
Local climate
6 Crockett Road, Auchencairn 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 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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