40 Stair Street, Kirkmaiden is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 March 1994.
40 Stair Street, Kirkmaiden
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1994
- OS grid reference
- NX 133 368
- Coordinates
- 54.69209, -4.89685
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The building at 40 Stair Street, Kirkmaiden, is a two-story, three-bay house dating to around 1900. The west elevation is painted render, while the north and south elevations are painted brick. The building features broad channelled quoin strips and a bracketed eaves course.
The west-facing (Stair Street) elevation has a pedimented and Corinthian-pilastered doorpiece at the center, with a panelled door and fanlight. Canted windows with bracketed eaves courses and decorative cast-iron brattishing sit in the outer bays at ground floor level. Bipartite windows are located in the outer bays at the first floor, and a single-light window, with a bracketed cill, sits centrally at the first floor.
The north elevation has a window at the center of the ground floor and a window to the outer right at the first floor. The south elevation is not described.
The windows are sash and case, with plate glass glazing. The roof has painted coped skews that continue across the gableheads, along with skewblocks. Painted brick corniced gablehead stacks are present, and the roof is covered in grey slates with square terracotta cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods are also visible.
A low coped wall extends along the west side of the property, topped by decorative cast-iron railings. There are pairs of squat, corniced, pyramidal-capped square gatepiers and matching gates at both the north and south gateways.
The building does not appear on the Ordnance Survey map of 1895 but is shown on the Ordnance Survey map of 1906.
Local climate
40 Stair Street, Kirkmaiden sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,240 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% 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 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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