The Craighlaw Arms, 23 Main Street, Kirkcowan is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1972. 1 related planning application.

The Craighlaw Arms, 23 Main Street, Kirkcowan

WRENN ID
tangled-copper-rye
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
20 July 1972
OS grid reference
NX 328 608
Coordinates
54.91408, -4.60897
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Craighlaw Arms is an inn dating to around 1800, prominently situated on Main Street in Kirkcowan. It is a two-storey building with three bays plus a single bay to the left, incorporating a depressed-arch pend. The exterior is of painted rubble construction, with painted raised angle details and window margins. The central doorway is recessed and features a fanlight above the door. The ground floor windows are sash and case, with single panes of plate glass. First floor windows are also sash and case, with a three-pane pattern. To the left of the main façade, a basket-arched pend provides access at ground level, with a blind bay positioned above. The building has an eaves cornice and a blocking course, topped with good-quality graded slate roofs. The end stacks are coped with thackstanes, and a sandstone ridge and skew are visible on the right side. A two-storey painted rubble wing extends to the rear, situated to the left.

Local climate

The Craighlaw Arms, 23 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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