Caprington Castle is a Grade A listed building in the East Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 April 1971. Mansion.
Caprington Castle
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- East Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Kilmarnock and Loudoun MP: Lillian Jones (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 April 1971
- Type
- Mansion
- OS grid reference
- NS 407 362
- Coordinates
- 55.59377, -4.52832
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Caprington Castle is a battlemented mansion built around 1820 by Sir William Cuninghame, 4th Baronet. The castle retains many of its original features from an earlier fortress, with original drawings from 1797 still in the owner's possession. The principal facade is marked by a four-storey splayed centre tower that has machicolations and a parapet. It features sash windows with square-headed drip moulds and square corner turrets, as well as a porte-cochere. The castle is situated on a raised terrace with round corner bastions. Inside, the hall and staircase boast a groined plaster ceiling and other Gothic decorations. The walls of the dining room align with the "Keep," and the original turnpike stair remains intact.
Local climate
Caprington Castle 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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