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

55 Castle Street, Kirkcudbright

WRENN ID
weathered-rotunda-cobweb
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
House
OS grid reference
NX 682 508
Coordinates
54.83513, -4.05331
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This is an early 19th century detached house located at 55 Castle Street in Kirkcudbright. The building is two stories high and has three bays. It is constructed of painted rubble with rendered margins. The central entrance features a pilastered door. There are two windows on the ground floor and three on the first floor, all with 12-pane glazing, along with one modern window positioned above the door. The roof is made of slate.

Local climate

55 Castle 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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