Primary School, Main Street, Sorn is a Grade B listed building in the East Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 November 1979. School. 4 related planning applications.
Primary School, Main Street, Sorn
- WRENN ID
- buried-plaster-oak
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- East Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Kilmarnock and Loudoun MP: Lillian Jones (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 6 November 1979
- Type
- School
- Address
- Primary School, Main Street, Sorn, KA5 6HU
- OS grid reference
- NS 553 264
- Coordinates
- 55.51056, -4.2918
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The primary school on Main Street in Sorn is a single-storey building with a pleasing symmetrical design. The center features a low flat-gabled projection that includes a Palladian window and is topped by a wooden clock cupola. The exterior is constructed from pink ashlar masonry, with occasional white stone headers. To the left, there is a rustic porch, and above, two gabled dormers add to the overall character of the building.
Local climate
Primary School, Main Street, Sorn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,340 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 77% 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 0.3°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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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