No’ 14a High Street is conveniently located within the Artists’ Town of Kirkcudbright and some 10 miles southwest of the Food Town of Castle Douglas in Southwest Scotland.

No’ 14a High Street is a thoroughly charming townhouse oozing with nostalgia and although modernised to an extremely high standard, still retains that olde- worlde feeling. Upon entering the door off the main street, you are greeted with an Indian sandstone paved entrance close with cobbled edges, which leads to the main door of the property and follows on through to the attractive fully enclosed courtyard garden. The property has been modernised to an extremely high standard offering comfortable accommodation over two floors. Local services and wonderful riverside walks are available straight from the doorstep.

After a little research, the property was thought to have been utilised as a holiday home by the author Dorothy L. Sayers who set her Lord Peter Wimsey detective novel, Five Red Herrings, in Kirkcudbright and surrounding area. The Stewartry Museum in Kirkcudbright published in 2005 a booklet: Dorothy L. Sayers in Galloway, by Christopher Dean, which, on page 9, quotes a 1930 letter from her saying she would be staying at 14a High Street. The property also neighbours the National Trust’s Broughton House & Gardens which is an impressive museum, combining both original interiors and exhibition spaces and is dedicated to E A Hornel’s life and work as an artist, collector and antiquarian.

All essential services are found in the busy harbour town of Kirkcudbright, which is situated on the banks of the River Dee. Kirkcudbright is extremely popular with tourists as well as craft shops and niche retailers the town is well served with a full range of retail and professional services. Both primary and secondary schooling are available within the town, with both being highly regarded.