4 Loanhead Street, Kilmarnock is a Grade C listed building in the East Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 August 2002.

4 Loanhead Street, Kilmarnock

WRENN ID
pitched-storey-burdock
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
East Ayrshire
Constituency
Kilmarnock and Loudoun MP: Lillian Jones (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
1 August 2002
OS grid reference
NS 432 377
Coordinates
55.60765, -4.48965
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

2 Loanhead Street in Kilmarnock is a classical double villa built in the late 19th or early 20th century. This two-storey building features an asymmetric design with two and three bays, situated on a corner site and highlighted by a turreted bay. The exterior is constructed from coursed sandstone ashlar with dressed sandstone surrounds and includes a band course and bracketed eaves.

The northwest elevation, which is the principal facade, has five bays. It is accessed by raised stone steps that have a stone balustrade. There are paired doors in the third and fourth bays, framed by a pilastered double door surround that supports a moulded cornice. Above the doors is a rectangular fanlight over a panelled timber door, with semi-glazed inner doors. A single window is located above on the first floor. The fifth bay features a double-height, three-light canted bay window with moulded panels, while the second bays have single windows. The first bay has a projecting pentagonal canted tower bay window.

The northeast elevation is regularly fenestrated across both storeys on the left and centre, with a return of the projecting two-storey tower bay on the right. The southeast elevation has a blind gable end that returns from the northeast elevation, and the rear of the northwest elevation is not visible. The southwest elevation also has a blind gabled end.

The windows of No. 1 are two-pane timber sash and case, while No. 2 has two-pane replacement PVCu windows. The main building has a piended grey slate roof, with a slightly octagonal grey slate conical roof on the tower and a three-sided grey slate roof over the bay window. The apex features pierced terracotta ridge tiles, with a terracotta ball finial on the bay and a wrought-iron finial on the tower roof. The building has painted cast-iron rainwater goods with decorative hoppers, and the gutter is concealed behind a low parapet that is ornately bracketed. There is a coursed ashlar stack at the gable with a shaped base course and neck cope, topped with a pair of terracotta cans.

Inside, some rooms have plaster cornicing, and the staircases feature timber balustrades and turned newel posts. The interior also includes skirting boards and panelled internal doors.

Local climate

4 Loanhead Street, Kilmarnock sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,420 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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