74 High Street, Kirkcudbright is a Grade A listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 August 1967. Terraced house. 2 related planning applications.
74 High Street, Kirkcudbright
- WRENN ID
- stony-copper-dale
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 18 August 1967
- Type
- Terraced house
- OS grid reference
- NX 681 508
- Coordinates
- 54.83523, -4.05514
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
74 High Street in Kirkcudbright is a 17th-century terraced house featuring two stories and dormerless attics with three wide bays. The building is constructed from rubble and painted. On the left side, there is a round-arched pend with roll-moulding that leads to Cannon's Close. The entrance door is located off-centre to the right, with one lower blocked door in the center and a small window to the left, along with one window to the right. The first floor has three small windows, with an inset panel in a bolection-moulded frame between the center and left windows, and a relieving arch in the masonry between the center and right bays. The house has straight skews, end stacks, and a steeply pitched slate roof.
At the rear, facing Cannon's Close, there is a lower wing that likely contains three cottages from the early 19th century. The left cottage and the two on the right are each two stories and two bays wide, built from rubble, with the left cottage featuring margins and painted. The windows have either 12 or 16-pane glazing, and all cottages have slate roofs. The paint was removed from the main house around 1985.
Local climate
74 High 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 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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