63 High Street, Kirkcudbright is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 May 1981. Church.

63 High Street, Kirkcudbright

WRENN ID
sharp-baluster-reed
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
28 May 1981
Type
Church
Address
63 High Street, Kirkcudbright, DG6 4JW
OS grid reference
NX 681 509
Coordinates
54.83567, -4.05514
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

63 High Street in Kirkcudbright is a former United Presbyterian Church built in 1822, featuring Gothic architectural details. The building has a rectangular-plan hall with a later added projecting porch. It is constructed of droved ashlar with polished dressings and quoins, all of which are painted. The façade includes three tall pointed-arched windows with hoodmoulds and simplified perpendicular tracery. At the top, there is a parapet and a piended slate roof. The forecourt is enclosed by arrowhead cast-iron railings.

Local climate

63 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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