Muirshiel Farmhouse is a Grade C listed building in the East Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 July 1980. Farmhouse.
Muirshiel Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- north-jamb-ivory
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- East Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Kilmarnock and Loudoun MP: Lillian Jones (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 July 1980
- Type
- Farmhouse
- OS grid reference
- NS 433 510
- Coordinates
- 55.72748, -4.49607
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Northern Byre at Muirshiel Farm is likely an early 19th-century farmhouse that has seen additions in the 19th and 20th centuries. It features a three-bay, single-storey structure with an attic, and has bipartite dormers. The farmhouse is set within a U-shaped courtyard, with byres located to the north and south. The house is rendered with ashlar dressings, while the byres are constructed from whitewashed random rubble. The house has raised ashlar window margins, and the byres are accented with long and short droved sandstone quoins.
The house includes a central mid-20th-century porch with a piend roof, which is fully glazed and features a bevelled glass inner door and flanking windows. The attic has bipartite piend-roofed dormers. The rear (west) elevation is irregularly fenestrated and includes a 20th-century two-storey and basement piend-roofed addition in the center, along with a conservatory to the left.
The windows are timber sash and case with 4-pane glazing. The house has coped, rendered stacks with yellow clay cans and ashlar-coped skews, all covered with graded grey slate.
The south range was formerly a threshing barn, built in an L-plan with a gable to the east and a piend roof to the west. It has sliding timber boarded doors leading to the courtyard and a raised section of wallhead in the center with a swept roof, along with slit windows.
The north range features an M-gable to the east, with a stone byre on the left that has a pigeon loft at the gable apex, and a 20th-century brick byre on the right with a sliding door. There is also a piend-roofed addition with a brick stack at the rear of the brick byre, along with timber-boarded doors.
Local climate
Muirshiel Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,350 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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