16 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. Cottage.
16 Main Street, Kirkcolm
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-bastion-larch
- 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
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- NX 030 685
- Coordinates
- 54.97259, -5.07907
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
16 Main Street in Kirkcolm is a cottage dating from the earlier to mid 19th century. It is a single storey and attic, three-bay structure that is part of a terrace. The building is harled with a painted base course and painted raised tabbed margins.
On the east elevation facing Main Street, there is a door at the center and windows in the outer bays. Above the outer bays, there are gabled and slate-hung dormer windows. The external finish of the cottage extends onto the neighboring building to the left.
The south elevation is adjoined to a taller building, No 14 Main Street, known as Rose Cottage, which is listed separately. The north elevation is adjoined to No 18 Main Street.
The cottage features modern timber top-hopper glazing and has a mutual gablehead stack on the north side. The roof is covered with purple-grey slates and has octagonal cans.
Local climate
16 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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